division_name: Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords] &#8212; New Clause 1 - Duty to prepare an Animal Sentience Strategy
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b690.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;places indirect responsibilities on Ministers&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b690.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;they must simply establish and maintain a committee and lay written responses, rather than assuming direct responsibilities on these matters, which is what we would like to see.&#8221;&#8211;&#8211;[Official Report, Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords] Public Bill Committee, <phrase class="date" code="2022-02-10">10 February</phrase> 2022; c. 27.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b692.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b693.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the number of sentient animals killed or injured&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b694.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;generally adhere to its guidelines on best practice. The Secretary of State will seek to appoint experts with appropriate experience relating to policy decision-making and/or the welfare of animals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b701.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;employee, former employee, or is a consultant or former consultant to, a charity&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b701.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;or campaigning organisation concerned with animal welfare or animal rights, or is or has been in receipt of any payments or funding from such a charity or organisation, whether directly or indirectly&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b703.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Sentience shall be understood to mean the capacity to have feelings, including pain and pleasure, and implies a level of conscious awareness.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b703.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;all due regard to the ways in which the policy might have an adverse effect on the welfare of animals as sentient beings.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b713.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;expected to prioritise considering current or recent policy&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b713.0/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;any vertebrate other than homo sapiens, any cephalopod mollusc and decapod crustacean&#8221;.</p>