§ Order for Second Reading read.
2.29 pm§ Mr. Gwyn Prosser (Dover)I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
More than 20,000 sheep packed into lorries pass through my constituency every week. Each truck carries the potential for great suffering. My constituents have put up with that for many years. However, I do not come to this vexed subject just as the Member of Parliament for Dover, but as an ex-seafarer who has witnessed the awful abuse associated with live animal exports close up in the blistering heat of the Arabian gulf and the storm-torn seas of the English channel and the Irish sea. The trade inflicts great suffering on living creatures and has no legitimate part to play in a civilised caring society. My Bill would ban the export of live animals—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder.
It being half-past Two o'clock, the debate stood adjourned.
Debate to be resumed on Friday 7 April.