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Chicken Farming And Maximum Permitted Stocking Density

EDM number 57 in 2009-10, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 18/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Animal welfare.

That this House notes with concern the proposed regulation to increase the maximum permitted stocking density for chickens from the recommended 15 to 17 to 17 to 19 chickens per square metre, with a further extension to 19 to 21 chickens if certain criteria are met; further notes that the Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare records that when stocking rates exceed 30 kg per square metre welfare problems are likely to occur regardless of indoor climate control capacity; believes that higher stocking densities result in an increase in pathologies, reduce behavioural activities and severely affect walking ability; and calls on the Government to exclude the derogation in the EU Directive that allows member states to permit extreme stocking densities above 17 to 19 chickens per square metre from UK legislation and not to abandon its previous recommended stocking density of 15 to 17 chickens per square metre, thereby permitting chicken welfare standards to be reduced.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Adrian Sanders18/11/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratProposed
Mike Hancock19/11/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley19/11/2009Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Sandra Gidley19/11/2009RomseyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn19/11/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Colin Breed19/11/2009South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Bob Russell19/11/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson19/11/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Annette Brooke19/11/2009Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor23/11/2009North West LeicestershireLabourWithdrawn
David Heyes23/11/2009Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Paul Holmes23/11/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing23/11/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Alan Meale24/11/2009MansfieldLabourSigned
Hywel Williams24/11/2009CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Mark Durkan24/11/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell24/11/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Pugh25/11/2009SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Kate Hoey25/11/2009VauxhallLabourSigned
Ann Cryer25/11/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean25/11/2009BurtonLabourSigned
David Drew25/11/2009StroudLabourSigned
John Leech25/11/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies25/11/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Albert Owen26/11/2009Ynys MLabourSigned
John Hemming26/11/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross26/11/2009TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis26/11/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/11/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Colin Burgon26/11/2009ElmetLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd26/11/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Brian Jenkins26/11/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Martin Caton26/11/2009GowerLabourSigned
Bill Etherington30/11/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton30/11/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Lady Hermon01/12/2009North DownUUPSigned
Paul Truswell01/12/2009PudseyLabourSigned
Jo Swinson03/12/2009East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh07/12/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Eric Illsley07/12/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ian Cawsey08/12/2009Brigg and GooleLabourSigned
Nick Harvey09/12/2009North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Challen09/12/2009Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
George Galloway10/12/2009Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Andrew Pelling10/12/2009Croydon CentralIndependentSigned
Charlotte Atkins15/12/2009Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSigned
Evan Harris16/12/2009Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/01/2010Luton NorthLabourSigned
Anne Begg02/03/2010Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Frank Doran10/03/2010Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan11/03/2010Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn30/03/2010Newport WestLabourSigned

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