Wild Animals In Circuses

EDM number 1301 in 2013-14, proposed by Jim Fitzpatrick on 29/04/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare, Leisure and Wildlife.

That this House recalls that the backbench debate held on 23 June 2011 resulted in a unanimous direction to the Government to ban the use of wild animals in circuses by July 2012; notes that the Government has since published the Draft Wild Animals in Circuses Bill which has been scrutinised by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee; supports Animal Defenders International in its campaign to end the use of wild animals in circuses; and calls on the Government to reassert its commitment to ending this practice in the Queen's Speech and to introduce a Bill in Parliament before the Summer Recess.

This motion has been signed by a total of 54 MPs.