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Cap Payments And Bullfighting

EDM number 485 in 2014-15, proposed by Alan Meale on 05/11/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare, Animals and Common Agricultural Policy.

That this House is aware that under the current Common Agriculture Policy, annual payments are being made to farmers from EU countries that breed bulls for use in bullfights; notes that this provision is estimated at approximately £110 million per year, with £13.5 million alone from the proportion of the UK budget; believes that bullfighting for fiestas is abhorrent as it involves the torture of animals in public display, a practice which flies in the face of Britain's own Animal Welfare Act 2006 and of the European Convention on animals kept for farming purposes, which specifically states that animals should not suffer pain, injury or distress; believes that such financial allocations are a clear violation of these laws; and calls on the Government to immediately cease such payments forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale05/11/2014MansfieldLabourProposed
Adrian Sanders06/11/2014TorbayLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mike Hancock06/11/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins06/11/2014Luton NorthLabourSeconded
John Leech07/11/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George10/11/2014St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lady Hermon10/11/2014North DownIndependentSigned
David Ward11/11/2014Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby11/11/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Paul Flynn11/11/2014Newport WestLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne11/11/2014Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd17/11/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Mark Hunter17/11/2014CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell17/11/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Caroline Lucas18/11/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Roger Godsiff18/11/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Naomi Long19/11/2014Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Valerie Vaz20/11/2014Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham02/12/2014Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell11/12/2014Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Lavery15/12/2014WansbeckLabourSigned
George Galloway11/02/2015Bradford WestRespectSigned

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