DOG ATTACKS

Early day motion 416, tabled 15 July 2013 by Peter Bottomley (Conservative). Signed by 23 members.

That this House welcomes Dog Awareness Week, 15 to 19 July 2013, organised by Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union with the support of animal charities; notes the reduction of recorded dog attacks on postwomen and men; regrets that the number of such attacks still exceeded 5,500 in the last year; further welcomes the proposed amendment to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill to give legal protection to delivery staff when in a customer's garden; and calls on the Government to include protection and remedy for an individual in the communal area of a block of flats and for someone who is bitten when delivering an item through a letter box.

Signatures by party: Labour 10, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 3, DUP 2, Alliance 1, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.