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Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 15 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) on animals, extended to include cosmetic ingredients in 1998. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) the change to the policy on heavily pregnant animals. - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) of animal welfare legislation, from the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill to the Hunting Trophies ( - Speech Link
4: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) , and there is something to be said for that.The change in the law that the hon. - Speech Link
5: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Finn’s law was passed in 2019, and Finn’s law part 2—the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Act 2021—was passed - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Animal testing is covered by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which was amended in 2012 - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) animal welfare charity, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) From the Hunting Act 2004, which banned the cruel practice of hunting with dogs, to the Animal Welfare - 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) Climate Change Act 2008; we need a human-specific technologies Act to provide a new legislative framework.Just - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) I have previously called for laboratory animals to be included in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) Under UK law, there are three main purposes for which animals may be used in science: for basic research - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 May 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) Let us start with the Leader of the House’s failure to bring forward the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Lady mentions the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill, whose measures are manifesto commitments. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Report stage - Wed 25 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Neither the science nor the law is stable enough for this to become an Act and we have just seen a very - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) and Embryology Act 1990, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and other legislation it deems relevant. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) Welfare Act 2006 and, where relevant, the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Commercial breeders of laboratory animals are profit rather than animal-welfare focused.”The petition - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) animal welfare reforms, including the recent Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, the Ivory Act 2018 - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The recognition of sentience must be extended to all animals through the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None This is contrary to the recognition of animals as sentient beings in the new Animal Welfare (Sentience - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) The Nuffield Council also raised concerns about bringing animal welfare in, stating:“The welfare of animals - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) This includes the Animal Welfare Act 2006, the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 and - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) There are other benefits, public goods, that the Bill achieves in animal welfare, tackling climate change - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) agreed to be the premier animal welfare organisations in the UK have said animals should not be in it - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) animals to ensure that animal welfare is safeguarded. - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (CB - Life peer) Also, the Bill does not change the Animal Welfare Act 2006, which protects animals in many other ways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) the recognition of animals as sentient beings in the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 30 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) are kept and what it is permissible to do to them—of course, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 comes into - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) in place for laboratory animals. - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) The purpose of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 is to look at policy across all policy areas and - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) This Bill does not purport to change plant varieties or to change the patent law, so that is going to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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