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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 759 Tuesday No. 106 24 February 2015 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Questions National Curriculum: Animal Welfare .............................................................................................................1529 Gurkhas ................................................................................................................................................................1531 Yarl’s Wood .........................................................................................................................................................1533 Armed Forces: Baltic Defence ..........................................................................................................................1536 Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Bill Order of Commitment Discharged .....................................................................................................................1538 Consumer Rights Bill Commons Reason .................................................................................................................................................1539 Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 Motion to Approve..............................................................................................................................................1569 Gambling: Fixed-odds Betting Machines Question for Short Debate.................................................................................................................................1627 Grand Committee Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Order 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 305 Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Northern Ireland and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 309 Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Conduct of Investigations, etc) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 309 Non-Domestic Rating (Shale Oil and Gas and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 309 Non-Domestic Rating (Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 314 Local Government (Transparency) (Descriptions of Information) (England) Order 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 315 Community Right to Challenge (Business Improvement Districts) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 317 Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 322 Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 327 Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2015 Motion to Consider ......................................................................................................................................GC 332 Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Amendment) Regulations 2015 Motion to Consider .........................................................................................................................................GC 337 £4·00 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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The first time a Member speaks to a new piece of parliamentary business, the following abbreviations are used to show their party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative Con Ind Conservative Independent DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Lab Labour Lab Ind Labour Independent LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2015, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 1529 National Curriculum: Animal Welfare[24 FEBRUARY 2015] National Curriculum: Animal Welfare 1530 academic subjects that would be a basic expectation in House of Lords many countries, and certainly in any private school. We have recovered substantially from that position: Tuesday, 24 February 2015. now nearly 40% get that core suite, but the Question underestimates the low base from which we are starting. 2.30 pm Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. Baroness Howarth of Breckland (CB): My Lords, will the Minister commend those organisations that take the trouble to take animals, particularly dogs, National Curriculum: Animal Welfare into care establishments and schools for children with Question learning disabilities? It has been shown that those youngsters improve their behaviour on encountering 2.37 pm animals. Maybe this is one area where we could increase attendance. Asked by Lord Hoyle To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they Lord Nash: I agree entirely with the noble Baroness. have any proposals to include animal welfare in the Organisations such as Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, national curriculum in schools. Blue Cross, Cats Protection, Dogs Trust and PDSA do excellent work. I am sure she will be interested to know The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for that, under the Government’s successful free school Schools (Lord Nash) (Con): My Lords, the new primary programme, we will have the Milton Keynes special free science curriculum, introduced from September 2014, school opening next year. It will be a 70-place alternative focuses on the essential scientific knowledge that young provision primary school for pupils with social, emotional people need to be educated citizens. It teaches primary and behavioural difficulties. It will incorporate a forest pupils about the requirements for animals to survive: approach. They will keep chickens and will be taught appropriate habitat, food, water and air. Subjects such by an experienced poultry keeper. as citizenship and PSHE also provide opportunities for pupils to learn about animal welfare, and teachers Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab): Does the Minister are free to decide what further activities they offer on agree that hunting with dogs is a cruel and unnecessary this subject. sport? If so, how would he explain to young people in schools that the Tory party is threatening to repeal the Lord Hoyle (Lab): I thank the Minister for that hunting ban? positive reply. As he says, it is important for young people to know about animals—not only domestic animals or farm animals, but wild animals and the Lord Nash: If we offer all our children a really good environment. Is he aware that the RSPA did a survey education, which we are trying to do, they can make in 2014 of 800 teachers, 95% of whom thought that it their minds up on these issues for themselves. ought to be taught to young people? Indeed, 83% thought it ought to be part of the national curriculum. Baroness Perry of Southwark (Con): Does my noble friend agree that when topics such as the use of animals Lord Nash: I am aware of the survey to which the in scientific experiments
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