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Lords Chamber
Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The policy statement was to phase out animal use in science, as announced by a Written Ministerial Statement - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) phase out animal testing as quickly as we can, but that is not practicable yet. - Speech Link
3: None I also refer all noble Lords to the Government’s document to phase out animals in science over time and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare Strategy for England - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) The most common issues include calls to end animal testing, phase out cages for farm animals, strengthen - Speech Link
2: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) The Government are on the right path to replacing animal experiments with modern, reliable alternatives - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) point out that since leaving the European Union we have had greater freedom to determine our animal - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) We published our new animal welfare strategy for England in December, setting out a clear long-term plan - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Hinchliff (Ind - North East Hertfordshire) Labour’s manifesto committed to phasing out animal testing. - Speech Link
2: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) Herbie’s law is a proposed legislative framework to phase out animal experiments, specifically in medical - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Can he assure us that when it comes to doing animal experiments of any sort, the priority will always - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) We need to empower the police to be out doing what they do best, not creating barriers for them to do - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Scientific and Regulatory Procedures: Use of Dogs - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) I went on lab trip recently with the APPG on phasing out animal experiments in medical research to visit - Speech Link
2: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) On 10 April this year, the FDA announced that it is beginning to phase out animal testing for monoclonal - Speech Link
3: Will Stone (Lab - Swindon North) In the United States, the FDA has already begun to phase out animal testing, replacing it with more human-relevant - Speech Link
4: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) phase out animal testing. - Speech Link
5: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) phase out animal testing. - Speech Link
6: Feryal Clark (Lab - Enfield North) out animal use where we are able to do that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 12 Feb 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) What steps he is taking with scientists to phase out animal testing. - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Our aim is to phase out animal testing as soon as is practicable. - Speech Link
3: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on phasing out animal experiments in medical research - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) approach to phasing out animal testing, but will the Government publish a timeline of what tests will - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) We need to ensure that the aim is not to finance our way out of a prison capacity crisis. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab - Life peer) That was at the heart of what had to be sorted out. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) seek ways out that drive growth, as they are trying to do. - Speech Link
4: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) against the plan to make work pay. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Government Support for the RSPCA - Wed 09 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) the phase-out of animals used in science and to set up a strategic advisory board, which will bring - Speech Link
2: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) Only earlier this year, Parliament decided to phase out the private keeping of primates, showing how - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough) towards phasing out animal testing. - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) to preserve animal welfare; 1p out of every pound goes on governance; and the other 17p is invested - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) I urge all Members to go out with an RSPCA inspector; it really opens our eyes to what they have to deal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I would like to understand how and when the Government plan to free these up. - Speech Link
2: Lord Crisp (XB - Life peer) That needs to be spelled out. - Speech Link
3: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) I would be interested to hear how the Government plan to deliver on that requirement.The next topic to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Do they plan to build on the tentative experiments in participative grass-roots democracy—people’s assemblies - Speech Link
5: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) to carry out a further process. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (Con - Wyre and Preston North) out of Monty Python—I turned out to be the most pro-European of the three, and it was a certainly an - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (Con - West Suffolk) I have tried my hardest to do that for 14 years—to reach out, to try to do things differently and to - Speech Link
3: Mark Menzies (Ind - Fylde) After 14 years, I still have not worked out how to write a beautiful speech. Listening to my hon. - Speech Link
4: Eleanor Laing (Con - Epping Forest) the personal out of it and stick to the facts. - Speech Link
5: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) He has enabled me to concentrate on animal welfare issues. - Speech Link


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) replace animal testing wherever possible; to reduce animal testing where it was not possible to replace - Speech Link
3: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) Ending animal experiments can only lead to positive change in research methods. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to phase animals out of EU science and regulation. - Speech Link