Parliament

Question 1

Select Committee - The Environmental, Food and Rural Affair’s Committee

Answer 1

• The Environmental, Food and Rural Affair’s Committee examined the Draft Animal Welfare Bill 2017, responsively changing the maximum penalty for animal welfare cruelty offences from 6 months to 5 years imprisonment through amending the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Question 2

Ping pong

Answer 2

• The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 was considered 5 times by the Lords and 4 times by the Commons in a 30-hour period before it passed.

Question 3

Select Committee - Windrush Scandal and Amber Rudd

Answer 3

• Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee at the time Yvette Cooper questioned Amber Rudd (Home Secretary at the time) if she had set a target for removal of immigrants which she denied. It was later found in a leaked memo that she had set a target to reduce immigrant numbers meaning she had misled the committee on at least one occasion. She resigned for this reason.

Question 4

Party whip