Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) Animal use may only be authorised where no suitable alternative exists. - Speech Link
2: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) That represents a decrease of just 4% compared with 2024, but a 9% increase in experiments on dogs, and - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) I agree that greater urgency is needed to accelerate the phase-out of animal testing, and I welcome the - Speech Link
4: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) Despite experiencing severe trauma, including a suicide attempt, evidence about her mental health and welfare - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) welfare protections, create new permissions for animal testing or reduce regulatory scrutiny. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Life peer) research ecosystem that enables both high-quality animal studies and the responsible development of animal - Speech Link
3: None welfare within that framework. - Speech Link
4: None health and welfare in science. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The aim of the instrument and the work that we are doing is to secure the best outcomes for animal welfare - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) create machines that out-compete what Aristotle described as the essence of being human—the rational animal—with - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fall (Con - Life peer) Growth is vital to the health and welfare of our nation, as is ensuring that those benefits are felt - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) The letters have remained firmly in my mind, and the improvements to animal husbandry and all the rest - Speech Link
4: Baroness Teather (LD - Life peer) In some experiments, even a single interaction with a sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) They preserve existing animal protection safeguards, responsibilities and enforcement powers within a - Speech Link
2: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) However, clearer animal welfare standards must be accompanied by stronger action from the Government. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) Getting into higher education is a great way of boosting job prospects and reducing welfare dependency - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hunter of Auchenreoch (Lab - Life peer) That will require further reform of the welfare system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) praised the Government’s ambition to achieve an 80% employment rate by helping 2 million people from welfare - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) It would enable a phase-out of animal experiments over the next decade, supporting scientists with the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) Experiments within the health service now demonstrate that. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) The UK is proudly a nation of animal lovers and a world leader in animal welfare standards, and we were - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Where is the welfare reform bill? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) We are a nation of animal lovers—my very first Westminster Hall debate was on animal welfare—although - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) set out in the animal welfare strategy and road map? - Speech Link
3: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) At its heart, animal testing is a moral issue and an animal welfare issue, but it is also increasingly - Speech Link
4: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) welfare standards across the board with measures such as the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Act - Speech Link
5: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) , the Labour Animal Welfare Society and the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. - Speech Link
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
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
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