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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: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) testing with respect to cosmetics; I thank my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) In cosmetics, we have seen great success in using NAMs to predict skin sensitisation. - 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: Samantha Dixon (LAB - City of Chester) foxhunting and fur farming to the action taken to stop experimentation on great apes and the testing of cosmetics - Speech Link
3: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) last Labour Government stood on a solid record—they banned foxhunting, fur farming and the testing of cosmetics - Speech Link
4: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) We recognised animal sentience in law. We increased maximum sentences for animal cruelty. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) The UK used to lead the world in animal testing, banning animal testing for cosmetics some 15 years before - 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: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) of cosmetics on animals in 1997. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) It is nonsensical and indefensible.Our EU partners are moving away from animal experiments. - 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


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

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Sentience Committee to produce a report on the use of sentient animals in scientific experiments and - Speech Link
2: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) Sentience Committee to produce a report on the use of sentient animals in scientific experiments and - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) had been a trustee of FRAME—the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments. - 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: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) that new decision means that certain cosmetics, including finished products and ingredients, will still - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) He mentioned the debates on testing cosmetics on animals, on animal sentience and on a whole range of - Speech Link


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) That Government then updated the law on animal experiments with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) cosmetics and scientific procedures, which are matters reserved to the UK Government. - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) that 84% of respondents would not buy a cosmetics product if they knew that it, or one of its ingredients - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) experiments, and the shadow Secretary of State’s concern about importing lower animal welfare standards - 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) Although animal welfare is a devolved area that the Scottish Government take seriously, animal cosmetics - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) In fact, there are major scientific problems with animal experiments. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) tests being available.Ending animal experiments can only be a positive change. - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) In 1998, animal testing on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics was banned in our country. - 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: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) For instance, Article 358 of the Russian criminal code states:“Massive destruction of the animal or plant - Speech Link
3: None to have no plans for an equivalent process beyond what they have already started with microbeads in cosmetics - Speech Link
4: None intentionally added microplastics, whereas the Government point to the UK ban on microbeads in wash-off cosmetics - Speech Link
5: 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


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: None Too often in the past it has been seen as acceptable to test cosmetics on animals. - 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