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Westminster Hall
Animal Testing - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) out for change and want to be at the forefront of non-animal methods. - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) That followed the huge progress made by companies such as Unilever and others to phase out the need for - Speech Link
3: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) within industry and academia that experiments carried out using live animals have greater credibility - Speech Link
4: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) Ending animal experiments can only lead to positive change in research methods. - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to phase animals out of EU science and regulation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We are committed to maintaining high animal welfare and food standards. - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) My 15-point plan for rubbish sets out some of the additional powers councils need to address the scourge - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) I too have met the RHS, and went to see its wonderful experiments on peat-free products very recently - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) get to the phase when trials are beginning where people have not pleaded guilty. - Speech Link
5: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) pause that will allow aid to get in and hostages to come out. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The research phase is now in its fifth year, which will give way to the landscape trials phase and then - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) put up walls to keep these threats out. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I would be interested to hear from the Minister, if he has time, of any further government plan to support - Speech Link
4: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) In parallel, our Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 set out how we will improve our environment at home - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) In east Africa, directly due to climate change, we are seeing the worst drought in over 40 years; Plan - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) of animal welfare”.My direct question to the Minister is: will the Government be doing that? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) However, the end goal of reaching agreement to phase out fossil fuels was watered down by the weaker - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) reach out to our global neighbours. - 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) That would reduce the unnecessary harm involved in animal experiments, and ultimately lead to a ban on - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) We need to phase out the use of animal testing in scientific research, and to develop human-specific - Speech Link
4: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) of phasing out animal testing entirely? - Speech Link
5: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) it is Government policy and the Government’s intention to move to phasing out animal experiments, or - 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: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) The plan sets out the breadth of work that we are focused on pursuing through this Parliament and beyond - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) and, indeed, our action plan. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) No.The SNP is consulting on proposals to improve animal transport legislation and to phase out cages - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Jane Stevenson (CON - Wolverhampton North East) many distressing posts about the Yulin dogmeat festival and about beagles being used in laboratory experiments - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) I have set out the reasons as to why the Government must go further to limit and prevent animal abuse - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) year the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced an action plan for animal welfare - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) the verification service providers and“signalled the beginning of a new phase of supervisory engagement - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) I understand it to be a sort of timetable that will set out the plan for doing everything we have just - 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) The European Parliament recently voted in favour of developing an action plan to phase animals out of - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) The action plan for animal welfare already sets out the Government’s current and future work on animal - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) , to report on the plan and to be held accountable for the plan. - 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) were carried out on beagles, the preferred breed for experiments due to their size, docility and submissive - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) That is simply wrong-headed.Five years ago, the Dutch Government announced plans to phase out animal - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) suffering, as defined in UK legislation, with a long-term objective to phase out animal testing entirely - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) phase animals out of EU science and regulation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Animal Testing - Thu 16 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) In September, further polling found 65% of respondents wanted to see a binding plan in place to phase - Speech Link