Dr Daniel Allen, Freya Woodhall, Debbie Matthews, Dr Marc Abraham OBE, Beverley Cuddy and John Cooper QC have been nominated for the Petition Campaign of the Year Award on the Your UK Parliament Awards.
The nomination follows their campaigning on pet theft reform.
Dr Daniel Allen, from Keele, began the petition “Make pet theft crime a specific offence with custodial sentences” in 2020, which obtained greater than 143,000 signatures. This adopted two earlier petitions, the first from 2018, which was signed by greater than 107,000 folks, and a second in 2019, which obtained over 117,000 signatures.
Dr Allen’s marketing campaign was arrange in collaboration with Debbie Matthews, CEO of the Stolen and Missing Pets Alliance, and supported by a lot of different animal rights campaigners, together with: Dr Marc Abraham OBE, founding father of the Lucy’s Law marketing campaign to finish pet farming; Freya Woodhall, whose canine Willow was stolen in 2018; Beverley Cuddy, Editor of Dogs Today Magazine; and John Cooper QC. The marketing campaign has additionally secured help from celebrities together with Ricky Gervais and Clare Balding.
A Parliamentary debate was held on two of Dr Allen’s petitions in October 2020. Ahead of the controversy, campaigners took half in a digital ‘roundtable’ with Tom Hunt MP, the Petitions Committee member who can be main the controversy, to debate their considerations. Opening the controversy, Mr Hunt backed the marketing campaign’s name for a selected offence to be created, and for the related sentencing tips to be strengthened.
In May 2021, the Government launched its Pet Theft Taskforce to look right into a reported rise in thefts, and Dr Allen was invited to offer proof. The Government then introduced in September 2021 that it will make ‘pet abduction’ a selected felony offence.
The Your UK Parliament Awards judging panel will choose the winners shortly, and the complete listing of nominees and the winner might be introduced sooner or later. The panel consists of MPs, members of the House of Lords, campaigning our bodies, and previous Award winners.
The Your UK Parliament Awards
The fifth annual Your UK Parliament Awards recognise the people throughout the UK who’ve taken democratic motion on the problems they care about. In addition to the Petitions Campaign of the Year Award, there are an additional seven classes, which have a good time people, colleges, and organisations who’ve made a distinction of their communities and past.
Catherine McKinnell MP, Chair of the Petitions Committee mentioned:
“These campaigns reveal so powerfully how petitions can increase consciousness of points which may in any other case battle to be heard in Parliament.
“The nominees have every proven the way to organise a profitable marketing campaign, constructing on their petitions by gathering help from others affected by the identical subject, charities, influential supporters, and the broader public.
“I’ve been moved by our nominees’ ardour, willpower, and concepts for the way to sort out the issues they’ve set their minds to, and congratulate them on their achievements.”
The winners will obtain a commemorative trophy and all nominees will obtain a certificates to have a good time their achievements.
The Petitioners can be found to interview, please contact the Petitions Committee press officer on the quantity under.
Further info on the awards could be discovered here.
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