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

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) I want to pick up again the point about animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) research and animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) welfare legislation to reflect the ethical and humane rights of animals and to improve animal welfare - 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: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) There is no plan for the economy, no plan to tackle welfare, and no plan to deal with immigration. - Speech Link
3: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) I am about to finish my remarks.We have a national living wage, a welfare system that is simpler, fairer - Speech Link
4: 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: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) Does the Secretary of State accept that this asymmetry on standards of animal welfare is incoherent and - Speech Link
4: 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) African swine fever in pigs is a good animal example—perhaps a known unknown. - 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
3: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) welfare hurdles in relation to precision-bred animals, which do not currently apply to conventionally - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) countries have adopted a positive list of species that can be kept, provided that the conditions meet welfare - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bshp - Bishops) In tackling both, we seek the health and welfare of the whole planet, and a common good that, in the - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Compassion in World Farming, as the name suggests, is focused on the well-being and welfare of non-human - 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) I have previously called for laboratory animals to be included in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the - 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) welfare, is a huge benefit to animal health and welfare? - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Animal welfare will pay the price. - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) We are also making strides to improve farm animal welfare, with the animal health and welfare pathway - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) welfare reforms, including the recent Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, the Ivory Act 2018, the Animal - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) The UK prides itself on being a leader in the animal welfare space. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Welfare and Animal Welfare (Sentience) Acts. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) This country should lead the world with high animal welfare standards. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None Animal Welfare Foundation, the Humane League, Animal Aid, Animal Defenders International and OneKind - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) I agree with him that we need to strengthen animal welfare laws. - Speech Link
3: None There will also be more debate around animal welfare in group 8. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) , the Bill introduces additional animal welfare standards, over and above existing animal welfare legislation - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 22 Nov 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) The supposed Government priorities of environmental action and animal welfare are long past their due - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Many of the animal welfare measures in the last Queen’s Speech were lifted directly from Labour’s animal - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Those issues are not contentious, because there is a commitment to animal welfare across the House. - Speech Link