<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>34121</id>
<session>2007-08</session>
<number>31</number>
<title>Animal Welfare</title>
<proposer id="11318">Bill Wiggin</proposer>
<date>2007-11-06</date>
<text>That this House recognises that much of the important detail of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 will follow in the form of regulations and codes of practice; notes that in 2006 the Government only laid before the House regulations relating to farm welfare and tail docking; is concerned that the implementation of regulations and codes of practice is proceeding at a slow pace; and calls upon the Government to bring forward the proposed draft regulations and codes of practice and ensure that Parliament will have the opportunity to scrutinise them prior to their commencement.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Animal welfare</topic>
	<topic>Animals</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11318">Bill Wiggin</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Leominster</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11727">Richard Benyon</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Newbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10389">Anne McIntosh</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Vale of York</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10713">Gregory Barker</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Bexhill &amp; Battle</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10470">James Paice</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>South East Cambridgeshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10006">Peter Ainsworth</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>East Surrey</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10261">Evan Harris</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Oxford West &amp; Abingdon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>2007-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10586">David Taylor</mp>
		<date>2007-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Leicestershire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2007-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10373">Peter Luff</mp>
		<date>2007-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Worcestershire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10371">Tim Loughton</mp>
		<date>2007-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Worthing &amp; Shoreham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10358">Julian Lewis</mp>
		<date>2007-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10240">James Gray</mp>
		<date>2007-11-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10815">Derek Conway</mp>
		<date>2007-11-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Old Bexley &amp; Sidcup</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10647">Nicholas Winterton</mp>
		<date>2007-11-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Macclesfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11506">David Jones</mp>
		<date>2007-11-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11715">Mark Lancaster</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Milton Keynes</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11599">Adam Holloway</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gravesham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10023">Tony Baldry</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Banbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10155">Edward Davey</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston &amp; Surbiton</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10394">David Maclean</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Penrith &amp; The Border</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10555">Nicholas Soames</mp>
		<date>2007-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Sussex</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10447">Malcolm Moss</mp>
		<date>2007-11-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Cambridgeshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2007-11-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10020">Peter Atkinson</mp>
		<date>2007-11-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hexham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11626">Michael Penning</mp>
		<date>2007-11-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hemel Hempstead</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>2007-11-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Linlithgow &amp; Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10422">Michael Mates</mp>
		<date>2007-11-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Hampshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2007-11-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2007-11-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10313">Brian Jenkins</mp>
		<date>2007-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tamworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10177">David Drew</mp>
		<date>2007-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stroud</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2007-11-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11199">Andrew Rosindell</mp>
		<date>2007-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10214">Christopher Fraser</mp>
		<date>2007-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>2007-11-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10190">Nigel Evans</mp>
		<date>2007-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ribble Valley</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2007-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="12834">Jim Devine</mp>
		<date>2007-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Livingston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2007-12-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10298">Simon Hughes</mp>
		<date>2007-12-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Southwark &amp; Bermondsey</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10079">Simon Burns</mp>
		<date>2007-12-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Chelmsford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10582">Robert Syms</mp>
		<date>2007-12-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Poole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11216">Andrew Selous</mp>
		<date>2008-01-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10040">John Bercow</mp>
		<date>2008-01-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Buckingham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10172">Jeffrey M Donaldson</mp>
		<date>2008-01-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lagan Valley</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10257">Philip Hammond</mp>
		<date>2008-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Runnymede &amp; Weybridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11804">Robert Goodwill</mp>
		<date>2008-02-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Scarborough &amp; Whitby</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11924">John Penrose</mp>
		<date>2008-02-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Weston-Super-Mare</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10084">Vincent Cable</mp>
		<date>2008-02-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Twickenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10344">Julie Kirkbride</mp>
		<date>2008-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bromsgrove</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10353">David Lepper</mp>
		<date>2008-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11115">Andrew Mitchell</mp>
		<date>2008-04-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sutton Coldfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10213">Liam Fox</mp>
		<date>2008-04-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Woodspring</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11406">Graham Stuart</mp>
		<date>2008-04-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Beverley &amp; Holderness</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10426">Theresa May</mp>
		<date>2008-04-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Maidenhead</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10290">Michael Howard</mp>
		<date>2008-04-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Folkestone &amp; Hythe</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10468">Richard Ottaway</mp>
		<date>2008-05-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Croydon South</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10658">Tim Yeo</mp>
		<date>2008-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Suffolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11859">Jeremy Hunt</mp>
		<date>2008-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Surrey</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10267">Oliver Heald</mp>
		<date>2008-05-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Hertfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10580">Desmond Swayne</mp>
		<date>2008-05-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10082">John Butterfill</mp>
		<date>2008-05-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bournemouth West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11640">James Brokenshire</mp>
		<date>2008-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hornchurch</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10715">John Baron</mp>
		<date>2008-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Billericay</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10243">Dominic Grieve</mp>
		<date>2008-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Beaconsfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10413">John Maples</mp>
		<date>2008-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stratford-on-Avon</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11588">Mark Harper</mp>
		<date>2008-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Forest of Dean</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10620">Robert Walter</mp>
		<date>2008-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Dorset</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11696">Philip Dunne</mp>
		<date>2008-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ludlow</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11389">Maria Miller</mp>
		<date>2008-06-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Basingstoke</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10051">Crispin Blunt</mp>
		<date>2008-06-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reigate</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11791">Jeremy Wright</mp>
		<date>2008-06-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rugby &amp; Kenilworth</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11785">James Duddridge</mp>
		<date>2008-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochford &amp; Southend East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13736">Bob Neill</mp>
		<date>2008-06-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bromley &amp; Chislehurst</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
