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Westminster Hall
Small Charity Sector - Tue 03 Mar 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Those pathways are worklessness and welfare dependency; addiction; educational failure; debt; and of - Speech Link
2: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) charities in my constituency—including Pavilion on the Park, the Eastleigh Basics Bank, Fledge, the Asian Welfare - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 25 Feb 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Those pressures have been created by the Prime Minister’s taxes and borrowing to pay for more welfare - Speech Link
2: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) In 2024, 2.64 million animals were used in medical experiments in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We are committed to phasing out animal testing wherever possible. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord McCabe (Lab - Life peer) I am not against all animal testing, but I support other methods, particularly in relation to medical - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) required where alternative, non-animal methods do not exist. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Beagles are hounds and are often used in experiments, but foxhounds are not. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister has talked about animal welfare and how proud he is of having voted to ban fox - 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: None Labour has been clear in its commitment to end animal testing and improve animal welfare through various - Speech Link
4: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I declare my interests as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare, - Speech Link
5: Baroness Grender (LD - Life peer) Those who stand outside those sites are people who care deeply about animal welfare, scientific integrity - 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) Member is addressing the wider issue of animal welfare, while my focus today is on this report. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) If Britain is to remain a world leader on animal welfare, transparency around breaches of animal welfare - Speech Link
4: Ben Maguire (LD - North Cornwall) the wider issue of animal welfare and delivers a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard animal - Speech Link
5: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) It would be not a victory for animal welfare but an abdication of responsibility. - 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: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Non-compliance with animal welfare laws on farms in Northern Ireland was detected in more than 21% of - 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: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) long-standing history of championing animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) Friend has long been a doughty champion for animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Trade deals must never undercut UK animal welfare. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) future animal welfare reforms.The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act 2024 delivered on the previous - Speech Link
5: 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: 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: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) There would be no animal welfare gain. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) Animal welfare and the right to protest are two of the most fundamental values of being British, and - 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: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) All those measures are incompatible with a thriving high street and any aspiration to bring down welfare - Speech Link