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Captive Elephants

EDM number 54 in 2000-01, proposed by Mike Hancock on 07/12/2000.

That this House notes that in 1998 the Captive Animals Protection Society revealed that electric shock devices or goads were being used in the training and management of the elephants at Blackpool Zoo; further notes that subsequent inquiries led the CAPS to believe that this was not an isolated case and that many zoos and safari parks in the United Kingdom have such devices; condemns the lack of protection given to captive elephants in the Zoo Licensing Act 1981; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislation to give elephants greater protection by amending the Zoo Licensing Act 1981 to prohibit discipline by means of (a) deprivation of food, water, or rest, (b) the use of electric shocks (eg by an electric goad) for training, (c) physical punishment resulting in damage, scarring, or breakage of the skin and (d) insertion of any instrument into any bodily orifice (eg hooks in mouth) and to prohibit members of the public from riding captive elephants with any breach of these conditions, being treated as a criminal offence punishable by law.

This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Hancock07/12/2000Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratProposed
Peter Bottomley08/12/2000Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones11/12/2000Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Norman Baker11/12/2000LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt11/12/2000Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Bob Russell11/12/2000ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Win Griffiths12/12/2000BridgendLabourSigned
Jenny Tonge12/12/2000Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Banks12/12/2000West HamLabourSigned
Norman Godman12/12/2000Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Andrew George12/12/2000St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham12/12/2000Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Jenny Jones12/12/2000Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle12/12/2000ChorleyLabourSigned
Harold Best13/12/2000Leeds North WestLabourSigned
David Taylor13/12/2000North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Harry Barnes13/12/2000North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
David Drew13/12/2000StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Tony Clarke13/12/2000Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Bill Michie13/12/2000Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Bob Laxton13/12/2000Derby NorthLabourSigned
Piara S Khabra13/12/2000Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Paul Keetch13/12/2000HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Barry Jones13/12/2000Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned
William Ross13/12/2000East LondonderryUUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd13/12/2000Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew Dismore14/12/2000HendonLabourSigned
Huw Edwards14/12/2000MonmouthLabourSigned
Mark Todd14/12/2000South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Rudi Vis15/12/2000Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
John Austin15/12/2000Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Janet Dean15/12/2000BurtonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe15/12/2000LeighLabourSigned
Nick Harvey15/12/2000North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Syd Rapson18/12/2000Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2000Islington NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams18/12/2000ConwyLabourSigned
Eric Illsley19/12/2000Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Nigel Jones19/12/2000CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Marsden19/12/2000Shrewsbury & AtchamLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara19/12/2000Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/12/2000KeighleyLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley19/12/2000RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Gerry Steinberg19/12/2000Durham, City ofLabourSigned
Alan Simpson20/12/2000Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/12/2000Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Nick Palmer21/12/2000BroxtoweLabourSigned
Debra Shipley21/12/2000StourbridgeLabourSigned
Russell Brown09/01/2001DumfriesLabourSigned
David Rendel10/01/2001NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara17/01/2001Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn18/01/2001Newport WestLabourSigned
Jon Trickett25/01/2001HemsworthLabourSigned
John McDonnell01/02/2001Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt01/02/2001CrawleyLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie05/02/2001Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Diane Abbott08/02/2001Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Paul Burstow08/02/2001Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Sawford08/02/2001KetteringLabourSigned
Alan Meale15/02/2001MansfieldLabourSigned
John Gunnell27/02/2001Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Jonathan R Shaw07/03/2001Chatham & AylesfordLabourSigned
Angela Smith07/03/2001BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Colin Breed07/03/2001South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Tynan07/03/2001Hamilton SouthLabourSigned
Sydney Chapman08/03/2001Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
Jackie Ballard08/03/2001TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake09/03/2001Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Clark12/03/2001South ShieldsLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders12/03/2001TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/03/2001Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jimmy Wray13/03/2001Glasgow, BailliestonLabourSigned
Peter Brand15/03/2001Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chidgey15/03/2001EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Prentice16/03/2001PendleLabourSigned
David Lepper20/03/2001Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Martin Linton20/03/2001BatterseaLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis21/03/2001Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Christine Russell22/03/2001Chester, City ofLabourSigned
Martin Salter22/03/2001Reading WestLabourSigned
Helen Southworth22/03/2001Warrington SouthLabourSigned
Simon Thomas22/03/2001CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
George Galloway26/03/2001Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Charlotte Atkins26/03/2001Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours27/03/2001WorkingtonLabourSigned
Paddy Ashdown27/03/2001YeovilLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Jackson02/04/2001WantageConservativeSigned
Jim Cousins02/04/2001Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Simon Hughes06/04/2001North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Candy Atherton09/04/2001Falmouth & CamborneLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham10/04/2001Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn24/04/2001JarrowLabourSigned
Geoffrey Robinson01/05/2001Coventry North WestLabourSigned
Edward Davey01/05/2001Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Llew Smith10/05/2001Blaenau GwentLabourSigned

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