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Commons Chamber
Animal Testing - Thu 16 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) experiments with human-relevant techniques. - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) Data from animal experiments are constantly fed into computer models that analyse their predictivity - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Report stage part two - Mon 06 Dec 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Viscount Ridley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Experiments on SARS-like viruses were being done on these mice in one city in particular for many years - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) By the same token, we have legislation that deals with medical experiments which already tightly controls - Speech Link
3: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (CON - Life peer) I raised this in Committee and was told, “Oh no; the Animal Welfare Committee and the animal sentience - Speech Link
4: None Our other animal welfare expert committees, including the Animal Welfare Committee and the Zoos Expert - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) experiments, and the setting of a target date for ending tests in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (CON - Romford) I know how committed she is to animal welfare, and she made some very good points, particularly on animal - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) Members who are committed to animal welfare. As my hon. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) Member has said, we are a nation of animal lovers. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) The second, which calls for a phasing-out of animal experiments, has attracted more than 83,000 signatures - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) In fact, there are major scientific problems with animal experiments. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) tests being available.Ending animal experiments can only be a positive change. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Mon 13 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Protection Act, to ban single-use items made from any material harmful to the environment or human and animal - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) the Government want action to ban the use of lead in a way which harms the environment and human or animal - Speech Link
3: None PPPs has been subject to a thorough assessment to ensure a high level of protection for human health, animal - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) toxic chemicals in unique combinations of three, that would require at least 166 million different experiments - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Tue 20 Jul 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None There is the animal sentience committee, which the Bill is setting up, and there is the Animal Welfare - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Welfare Commission; New Zealand’s National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and its National Animal - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) They mentioned lots of animal welfare issues, but nobody mentioned animal sentience. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) in the field of animal welfare, animal behaviour, veterinary ethics and law. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Look at the progress in Ireland on gay marriage and abortion law, the experiments run here on local issues - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) For instance, Article 358 of the Russian criminal code states:“Massive destruction of the animal or plant - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) this occasion, I do not agree with most of the noble Lord’s amendment.My criticism is not to do with animal - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) They include: the “no data, no market” principle; the last resort principle on animal testing; the aim - Speech Link
5: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) of what we are trying to protect in the chemicals regulation in terms of its impact on human health, animal - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) could, is that it trespasses on a well-worn, established set of mechanisms for ensuring that those experiments - Speech Link
2: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) global scale.I add that, in the research and development of vaccines against Covid-19, studies and experiments - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) The use of animals in experiments and testing is highly regulated in the UK under the Animals (Scientific - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) into the Animal Welfare Committee. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) into the Animal Welfare Committee. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) We do not believe it is a practical suggestion, as the Animal Welfare Committee and animal sentience - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) created a new system for recycling single-use plastics used in some of their successful scientific experiments - Speech Link
2: None consumption (for example, through food donation or processing);(c) recovering unsold food which is fit for animal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) for humans: if it has not been sold, it must go for donation; if we cannot eat it, it should feed an animal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Wuhan Institute of Virology - Wed 30 Jun 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, with the increasing threat of zoonotic diseases crossing the animal-human divide, learning - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) Minister agree that we urgently need to address global regulation of labs that undertake gain of function experiments - Speech Link