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Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) animals in these experiments. - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) research with a long-term ambition of zero animal experiments. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) methods are available, animals are being used for experiments. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ministerial Severance: Reform - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (Lab - Islington South and Finsbury) Yet again we could see a Reform-adjacent radical put in his place, eager to engage in experiments with - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) We will be strengthening animal welfare, strengthening our economy with the Digital Markets, Competition - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Whether he is taking steps to improve animal welfare standards applicable to food imports and exports - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We are committed to maintaining high animal welfare and food standards. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) I too have met the RHS, and went to see its wonderful experiments on peat-free products very recently - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) The movement of humans, animals and plants, and of animal and plant products, is now at a speed and scale - Speech Link
2: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) labs around the world that are researching these lethal pathogens and, more importantly, ensuring that experiments - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Some people say that experiments show that a frog is not so stupid, and these prove the story is not - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) programmes, with the Governments in programmes’ countries of operation, to establish agreed levels of animal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) Over several decades, numerous studies and animal experiments have found that the use of such tests can - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human-specific Medical Research Techniques - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) , and 70% would like to see all animal experiments phased out by 2040. - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Also, the UK is the top user of primates and dogs in experiments in Europe; thousands of experiments - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) experiments, or is the Minister telling us that the Government think there will always be a place for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) We banned experiments in the UK on great apes such as chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas in 1997. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (CON - Penrith and The Border) Gentleman agree that the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, by creating the Animal Sentience Committee - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Animal welfare will pay the price. - Speech Link
4: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) We recognised animal sentience in law. We increased maximum sentences for animal cruelty. - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) We have also introduced the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Act 2021, extending animal cruelty sentences - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Commercial Breeding for Laboratories - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) It seems counter-productive, because only a small proportion of animal experiments are conducted to satisfy - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) While supporters of animal experiments will point to the successes of the development of the cancer drug - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) First, we know that not all animal experiments are conducted for the purposes of medical research; many - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) It is nonsensical and indefensible.Our EU partners are moving away from animal experiments. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) and gene-editing an animal or animal product. - Speech Link
2: None Animal Welfare Foundation, the Humane League, Animal Aid, Animal Defenders International and OneKind - Speech Link
3: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) looked for by whole genome sequencing in the screening process and then perhaps by in vivo challenge experiments - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) , the Bill introduces additional animal welfare standards, over and above existing animal welfare legislation - Speech Link
5: Lord Winston (LAB - Life peer) Of course, that particularly means looking at the phenotype of the animal, whether it is a normal animal - Speech Link