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

Mentions:
1: Lord Marland (CON - Life peer) a new umbrella of animal welfare created by Defra. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Obviously, it will be the Animal Welfare Committee. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (CON - Life peer) welfare and animal sentience?” - Speech Link
4: None Our other animal welfare expert committees, including the Animal Welfare Committee and the Zoos Expert - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Welfare Committee.The animal sentience committee and the Animal Welfare Committee will be affiliates - 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) When we were in opposition I served as shadow Minister for animal welfare, and on Friday my own animal - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) These are the same people who do not care about animal welfare. - Speech Link
4: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) Members who are committed to animal welfare. As my hon. - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Those were all good times.Let me return to animal welfare. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) Then I started looking into animal welfare issues. - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) They delay animal welfare legislation on the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill and on increasing sentences - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) People care about animal welfare issues profoundly and deeply. - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) welfare and animal research are properly integrated. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Welfare Commission; New Zealand’s National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and its National Animal - Speech Link
2: None The Animal Welfare Committee is advisory. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) sentience and animal welfare combine. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) experiments, you begin to establish a body of knowledge about the behaviour of animals. - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) welfare policy”.She was clearly on the march on animal welfare matters even then. - 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: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) In 1934, he wrote:“The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) welfare and testing, which was dealt with at an earlier sitting. - 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) health and welfare, wildlife and everything else this Bill is concerned with before we try to change - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meyer (CON - Life peer) Animal welfare laws in the UK date back to 1822. - Speech Link
2: None Animal welfare is a devolved matter. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) into the Animal Welfare Committee. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) into the Animal Welfare Committee. - Speech Link
5: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) welfare science”—but, of course, animal welfare is not a science. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Welfare Committee and the animal sentience committee. - Speech Link
7: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Welfare Committee and the animal sentience committee. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None The last set of EU statistics on animal experiments showed that more animals were used for testing in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) research, as well as a focus on animal welfare rather than human welfare. - Speech Link
3: None If we solve that, we do not have such a problem in terms of animal welfare. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) It is not a binary decision to be for animal welfare or for human welfare. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 16 Jun 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (CON - Life peer) rights and animal welfare. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) animal welfare ahead of human life. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) We also have very tight control on animal experiments. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (CON - Life peer) Farm Animal Welfare Council. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) rights with animal welfare. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
2nd reading - Mon 07 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) shared between European and other competent authorities to minimise the use of animals in such toxicity experiments - Speech Link
2: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) that this Government have in producing a raft of necessary legislation on food, environment, farming, welfare - Speech Link
3: Lord Smith of Finsbury (Non-affiliated - Life peer) forgotten: access to nature is essential for our well-being, our health, our ability to exercise and the welfare - Speech Link
4: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) welfare, if we are to be successful, the Bill requires us to use a combination of science, engineering - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 13 May 2021
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) without subsidy, while also taking steps to improve the environment, reduce carbon emissions and improve animal - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) There were all sorts of experiments with e-voting, text voting and ballot boxes in supermarkets, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Morris of Aberavon (LAB - Life peer) The way that the price of oil has gone up and down should make anyone caring for the economic welfare - Speech Link