Animal Welfare Bill

No, my Lords, that is an unfair description of what I said and is not accurate. We have drafted the clause to meet the widest number of circumstances, so that a court—I repeat, a court—can take into account all the relevant circumstances of the animal, whatever its level of domestication. That is important. Anything that narrowed the clause would diminish that; so her description was the opposite of the case that I was making.