§ Mr. ParryTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the representations he has received to date concerning cruelty to animals in Spain; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacleanWe have received representations from Compassion in World Farming and the RSPCA, which have both provided video-taped material alleging breaches in Spanish slaughterhouses of the EC provisions on pre-slaughter stunning. We are asking the Commission what action it intends to take and in the meantime we continue to refuse to license exports of food animals to Spain.