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Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting) - Tue 28 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) it is with plant or animal, is going to fit in with or change farming practices. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) You change something and then you have a trait change in the animal. - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) of animal welfare and which facilitated the keeping of animals in inhumane industrial farming systems - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) the welfare of animals? - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) the food chain, or I gene-edited the animal with the same genetic changethe same mutation—those animals - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Online Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Welfare22A An offence under any of the following provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2006—(a) section - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) to two offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, district judge Susan Holdham described the incident - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) That work goes back a long time and includes the last Labour Government’s Animal Welfare Act 2006. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) include animal behaviour, animal welfare, neurophysiology, veterinary science, law, and public administration - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) After all, the sentience of animals has long been recognised in UK law, as evidenced by animal welfare - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Last month, this House debated a petition calling for legislation to include laboratory animals in the - Speech Link
4: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Animal Welfare Act 2006. - Speech Link
5: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) Animal Welfare Act 2006. - 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) , which calls for legislation to include laboratory animals in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.To give some - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) They can do that by changing the law to include laboratory animals in the Animal Welfare Act. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The petition calls on the UK Government to change the law so that laboratory animals are included in - Speech Link
4: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) this House seek to include animals in science in the Animal Welfare Act, as a number of Members have - Speech Link
5: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) laboratory animals and the Animal Welfare Act. - Speech Link
6: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) laboratory animals and the Animal Welfare Act. - 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: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) In order to change the rules about medical science or the slaughter of animals, I believe there would - Speech Link
2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (CON - Life peer) Animal Welfare Committee—and extend its remit to include animal sentience. - Speech Link
3: None It does not change existing law or impose any new restrictions on individuals or businesses. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” - Speech Link
5: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” - Speech Link
6: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) of the welfare needs of animals continues to evolve. - 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) purpose enshrined in law.”In short, the 1986 Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act needs to change. - Speech Link
2: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) from the protection of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) from the protection of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. - Speech Link
4: George Freeman (CON - Mid Norfolk) to exempt such animals from the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and put in place specific protections for them - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) The Climate Change Act introduced statutory interim targets and they do drive change, as opposed to the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Change Act 2008, or plans to achieve air quality objectives, as set out in the Air Quality Standards - Speech Link
3: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) My very strong feeling is that we should borrow the wording in the Climate Change Act, which says very - Speech Link
4: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Amendment 43 seeks to change the definition of “natural environment” to include heritage buildings in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Better Jobs and a Fair Deal at Work - Wed 12 May 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) in Dying want a very tight and narrow change made to the law. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) set out in, the 2015 Act, rather than a policy change. - Speech Link
3: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) standards of animal welfare—two issues that I know my constituents care deeply about, as do I. - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) We now have a welfare state in the 2020s built on the life expectancy of the 1940s. - Speech Link
5: Kate Osborne (LAB - Jarrow) UK the best place in the world to work and include measures to strengthen workers’ rights and protections - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Non-affiliated - Life peer) key commitments in the Northern Ireland protocol and the United Kingdom Internal Market Act. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clark of Windermere (LAB - Life peer) insisting upon the environmental and animal welfare standards. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, referred to the European Union Reference Laboratory for Animal Proteins - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) This had previously replaced references to the European Union Reference Laboratory for Animal Proteins - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Mon 26 Oct 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) 59 seeks to ensure that the welfare of animals is considered when making regulations about veterinary - Speech Link
2: None We are a nation of animal lovers, with high standards of animal welfare. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the regulations promote the health and welfare of animals, the health and safety of the public or the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB - Life peer) for animal health and welfare, public health and trade. - Speech Link