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Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) In 1876, we were the first country to pass legislation regulating experiments on animals. - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2021.Let me give an example - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) experiments, and the shadow Secretary of State’s concern about importing lower animal welfare standards - 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: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Trees, said, lots of safeguards around licensing of medical science are already - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) On animal welfare, there is strong support for ending the keeping of primates as pets—not for licensing - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) experiments, and the setting of a target date for ending tests in the UK. - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) That is why licensing is much safer than allowing the unscrupulous to win through. - Speech Link
4: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) Licensing costs must be proportionate for animal welfare establishments, since some could have as many - Speech Link
5: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) The Bill reforms the Zoo Licensing Act 1981, improving its operability and allowing for 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) In fact, there are major scientific problems with animal experiments. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) tests being available.Ending animal experiments can only be a positive change. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) testing must be a last resort and, importantly, that stringent requirements for licensing are necessary - 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 Whitty (LAB - Life peer) mouldering on the statue book for another two decades.The Government then argued that this country’s licensing - Speech Link
3: 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
4: None PPPs has been subject to a thorough assessment to ensure a high level of protection for human health, animal - Speech Link
5: 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


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Krebs (CB - Life peer) These included land use planning, species recovery, wildlife licensing, national nature reserves, SSSIs - Speech Link
2: None The last set of EU statistics on animal experiments showed that more animals were used for testing in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) Millions of animals are still abused every year in experiments that cause great pain and suffering. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) testing and experiments is already the tightest in the world, and researchers complain that they can - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) much detail to secondary legislation but, given the importance of AMR for environmental, human and animal - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) We should, perhaps, allow pilot projects before licensing more widely. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) months that well-funded campaign groups have taken to judicial review to frustrate the long-standing licensing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Environment Bill
Report stage - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) Due to evidence of damage in only five—a mere 1.5% of all sites—it wants to introduce a licensing system.In - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) The toxic chemicals used to manufacture plastic get transferred to animal tissue and eventually enter - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Reforms to the abstraction licensing system will mean that less water is taken from our environment when - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) In the last reporting period, the UK used the highest number of animals in experiments of any country - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 5th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 11 Nov 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None Moreover, reinforced learning has been applied in experiments that date back to 2017 and were designed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) I would like to come back on Report to the concept of provisional licensing as a way of getting new and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The noble Lord is asking for regulations to provide for a specific licensing regime for medicinal cannabis - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) My point is that MHRA’s approach to medicinal cannabis is the approach it takes to licensing all other - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 28 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) This means, for example, that a Scottish regulator cannot impose additional licensing requirements for - Speech Link
2: None Wales is the perfect size for experiments of this type, and existing devolved powers have allowed for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) We are now in discussion with the Government about the licensing—shortly, we hope—or authorisation of - Speech Link