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Lords Chamber
Life Sciences: Beagles - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The Government have a manifesto commitment to phase out animal use, and we published a strategy in November - Speech Link
2: Lord McCabe (Lab - Life peer) I am not against all animal testing, but I support other methods, particularly in relation to medical - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The Government are also funding the national centre dealing with this issue to develop new, non-animal - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) required where alternative, non-animal methods do not exist. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Beagles are hounds and are often used in experiments, but foxhounds are not. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) This policy has been welcomed by animal welfare groups, industry and academia. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) When we were passing this Act, animal welfare did not come up. - Speech Link
3: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) affect animal breeding. - Speech Link
4: None Of course, it is also about animals and animal testing. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animals in Science Regulation Unit: Annual Report 2024 - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) experiments in medical research, as well as to the work of Animal Free Research UK and its chief executive - Speech Link
2: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) experiments.We on the APPG on phasing out animal experiments have discussed implementing Herbie’s law - Speech Link
3: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) experiments in medical research. - Speech Link
4: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) and letters in my constituency inbox about animal rights and animal testing. - Speech Link
5: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) the wider issue of animal welfare and delivers a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard animal - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Michael Wheeler (Lab - Worsley and Eccles) Friend for her intervention, and of course I agree.ASRU is tasked with licensing animal experiments and - Speech Link
2: Michael Wheeler (Lab - Worsley and Eccles) Animals were reused, in second experiments, without proper authorisation. - Speech Link
3: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) experiments in medical research. - Speech Link
4: Michael Wheeler (Lab - Worsley and Eccles) experiments in medical research. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare Strategy for England - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Rachel Taylor (Lab - North Warwickshire and Bedworth) We are clearly a nation of animal lovers. - Speech Link
2: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) It acknowledges the need to reduce animal experimentation, yet we have heard that 2.5 million animal - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) future animal welfare reforms.The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act 2024 delivered on the previous - Speech Link
4: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) I am reminded today that the animal welfare strategy is not an end game, but animal welfare is a moving - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Nitrogen Reduction, Recycling and Reuse (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report) - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We are soon going to hear some more about slurry and the issues of intensive animal agriculture. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Agricultural nitrogen pollution arises largely from animal husbandry, particularly manure and slurry, - Speech Link
3: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) livestock are, although the distribution is less marked for pigs and poultry.Making better use of animal - Speech Link
4: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) We must also recover nitrogen from sewage sludge, food waste and animal manure.Agricultural nitrogen - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) I am not opposed to all animal testing, but I believe that the vast majority of experiments are unnecessary - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) I am not and never have been an animal rights activist; I am an animal welfarist, and in my mind there - Speech Link
3: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) experiments in medical research—the right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Supporting High Streets - Tue 04 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) When the shadow Minister’s party came into government in 2010, I was working in the Animal store in Queens - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) I do not want to get too deflected by stories about the Animal store, of which the hon. - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) The reality is that we have tried all these experiments, and we know how they work: they end up with - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) We have had a really good tour of the country, taking in Animal shops, fun palaces and all sorts of stuff.It - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) They included a lady who caused the unnecessary suffering of an animal and was in possession of a samurai - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) been relatively successful in most of our constituencies.Unfortunately, though, there have been experiments - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) exactly in the tradition of community service as it was founded and developed over the years, but the experiments - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Hinchliff (Ind - North East Hertfordshire) Labour’s manifesto committed to phasing out animal testing. - Speech Link
2: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) Herbie’s law is a proposed legislative framework to phase out animal experiments, specifically in medical - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is quite clear that people have had their lives saved through scientific experiments with animals, - Speech Link