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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: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) , Food and Rural Affairs but the Home Office is in charge of licensing. - Speech Link
3: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) research with a long-term ambition of zero animal experiments. - 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: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) research phase is now in its fifth year, which will give way to the landscape trials phase and then a licensing - Speech Link
3: 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


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: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) refine the use of animals in research and to ensure that the UK has a robust regulatory system for licensing - 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: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) We revamped local authority licensing regimes. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) It would have made zoo licensing easier to enforce, and therefore guaranteed the high standards in animal - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) We have also banned third-party puppy and kitten sales through Lucy’s law, the Animal Welfare (Licensing - Speech Link
5: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) She rightly pointed out that licensing issues continue to plague zoos across the country. - 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: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) First, we know that not all animal experiments are conducted for the purposes of medical research; many - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) It is nonsensical and indefensible.Our EU partners are moving away from animal experiments. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) They are clearly the future.The petition refers to licensing. - 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) In plant breeding, licensing platforms which facilitate access to patented material have been borne out - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) We are talking about licensing something that the Government are giving companies the right and the chance - 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


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) wishing to place a precision-bred vertebrate animal on the market will have to submit an animal welfare - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Regarding dogs, which my noble friend Lord Krebs mentioned, the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) The process for authorisation and licensing of new breeds of animals is, as yet, not very clear and probably - Speech Link
4: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) interest the House to remember that, 10 years ago, I was the Minister in the Home Office responsible for licensing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 30 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None experiments, and to ensure the robust ethical review of animal use. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) All those require licensing, and then, when the line of genetically altered animals has been created, - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) Sentience Committee and all the licensing regimes under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 - Speech Link
4: Katherine Fletcher (CON - South Ribble) My opinion is that we are now getting very good data from research experiments showing that off-target - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Laboratory Animals: Animal Welfare Act - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) One called for all animal testing in the UK to be banned and the other for a phasing out of animal experiments - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) us all in understanding why this procedure, which is classified as mild suffering under Home Office licensing - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Let us have a public scientific hearing on animal experiments. - Speech Link