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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) How will the 2025 Act give the Environment Agency the powers it needs to hold polluting companies to - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) in 2020 to redevelop the APHA headquarters in Weybridge? - Speech Link
3: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) It is beneath her to try to weaponise the issue in the way that she has done. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Hurley (Lab - Southport) What more can the Government do to fill the gap in training capacity to better serve the interests of - Speech Link
5: Julian Smith (Con - Skipton and Ripon) I urge Ministers, in addition to holding the review, to look very carefully at the opportunities to use - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) step in ensuring that the UK retains the highest animal welfare standards in the future? - Speech Link
2: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) We were the first to set up an animal welfare charity—the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) Labour is the party of animal welfare; legislation to improve the lives of animals has formed a vital - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) reduction in the use of animals, and refinement to eliminate or reduce distress to the animals involved - Speech Link
5: Feryal Clark (Lab - Enfield North) Animal testing would move overseas, to countries where the regulations on the use of animals in science - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
EU Trading Relationship - Thu 24 Apr 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewin (Lab - Welwyn Hatfield) all the more important given the dramatic change in the position of the United States. - Speech Link
2: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) In order to smooth their trade, we need to keep our standards the same as those in the EU. - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) It is therefore time to stop being afraid to speak the truth about the damage of Brexit and to act in - Speech Link
4: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) to the referendum in 2016, with the objective of overturning that referendum in substance, if not in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Farming and Rural Communities - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard (UUP - Life peer) There needs to be a change in attitude, policy and direction.I have listened to some of the issues around - Speech Link
2: Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell (Con - Life peer) , and often the focus of similar think-tank plans in the welfare-to-work agenda, is often on towns and - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) in the way of councils and others who have been forced to step in to do the work it and the Environment - Speech Link


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: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) of animal welfare legislation, from the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill to the Hunting Trophies ( - Speech Link
2: 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
3: 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
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) to do more to focus on animal welfare in the time remaining before the general election, whenever it - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) Measures to tackle puppy smuggling were originally included in the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) animal welfare charity, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) I hope that the House will join us today in upholding the Government’s commitment to animal welfare by - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to reflect the ethical and humane rights of animals and to improve animal welfare standards domestically - Speech Link
4: 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) the Climate Change Act, so we might include an expert advisory committee to keep us up to speed with - 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: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Opposition to the use of animals in medical research is not limited to concerns about cruelty and animal - Speech Link
4: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) to replace, refine and reduce the use of animals in research and testing—and I pay tribute to the National - Speech Link
5: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) research; the reduction in the number of animals needed to obtain the same amount of information; and - 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) system; protecting animals via Finn’s law and Lucy’s law; passing the Wild Animals in Circuses Act 2019 - Speech Link
3: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) to secure the future of the CPA secretariat here in the UK? - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) to commencing the measures in the Bill in relation to animals. - Speech Link
2: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) The Animal Welfare Act, as mentioned in the noble Baroness’s amendment, will continue to apply to all - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) whether in the animal welfare declaration the notifier has paid regard to the risks to an animal. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) change the law so that animals in facilities such as MBR Acres are protected by the Animal Welfare Act - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) from the animals in science regulation unit, citing concerns about the lack of in-person visits to animal - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) animal welfare reforms, including the recent Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022, the Ivory Act 2018 - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) to prove their claims about the efficacy of the use of animals in animal testing. - Speech Link