Ban on pets as prizes

​​​​​Emma Best AM proposed, and Shaun Bailey AM seconded the following motion:

“This Assembly is concerned by the reports received by the RSPCA each year regarding pets given as prizes via fairgrounds, social media and other channels in England – and notes the issue predominantly concerns goldfish. We are concerned for the welfare of those animals that are being given as prizes and recognise that many cases of pets being given as prizes may go unreported each year.

Therefore, this Assembly supports a move to ban the giving of live animals as prizes, in any form, in London and calls on the Chair and Mayor to write jointly to all London Councils asking them to agree to ban outright the giving of live animals as prizes, in any form, on Council land.

In addition, this Assembly asks the Chair and Mayor to write jointly to the Government, urging an outright ban on the giving of live animals as prizes on both public and private land.”

Following debate, and upon being put to a vote, the motion as altered, was agreed unanimously.