Clause 5 - Mutilation
Animal Welfare Bill
6:00 pm
Bill Wiggin (Shadow Minister (Agriculture & Fisheries), Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; Leominster, Conservative)
The hon. Member for Lewes said earlier that I was shaking my head, but that was because he implied that large numbers of game birds were hatched from eggs in raised cages. In fact, the number is very small. I agree with what the Minister and the hon. Gentleman said about piercing the septum, but is the Minister not already working with the National Gamekeepers Organisation, which has a code of conduct? Is he not likely, as a result of the research that he is doing, to base his code of conduct on the existing code, which already bans that practice?