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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Laboratory Animals: Animal Welfare Act

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I, too, thank my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) for securing the debate. I also thank the 163 constituents of mine in Ochil and South Perthshire who signed the e-petition. The monitoring and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Laboratory Animals: Animal Welfare Act

"Has the hon. Gentleman ever heard a good argument against using anaesthetics to reduce animals’ pain?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Laboratory Animals: Animal Welfare Act

"That is a long litany of justification, but perhaps the Minister would address just one specific point, which my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk raised: what is the scientific or ethical justification for pouring chemicals into the stomachs of puppies without using anaesthetics? Could he address …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Laboratory Animals: Animal Welfare Act

"And if that was your dog?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Sep 2021
LGBTQ+ Afghan Refugees

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing the debate. Our hasty, chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has left the country in despair. Most in danger are women, minorities and, in particular, LGBT people. Often in this place, we consider decisions that we have made in the abstract, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

" What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on plans to review the relationship between Government and the courts. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Jun 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Public Law Project requested a breakdown of Government spending on judicial review, but it said that the information received was “barely a fraction of what should have been published. It is not detailed or clear enough to give any meaningful insight as to how judicial review impacts Government departments”.

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on upholding the rule of law. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Former Supreme Court Justice Lord Dyson described the Government’s toxic rhetoric on the legal profession as “irresponsible”, “dangerous” and “inflammatory,” and

“the language of a demagogue.”

The former Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, said the Government’s language is indecent and typifies

“precisely this sort of ugly authoritarianism that the …..."
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Written Question
Administrative Law Independent Review
Tuesday 22nd September 2020

Asked by: John Nicolson (Scottish National Party - Ochil and South Perthshire)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

What recent progress has been made on the Independent Review of Administrative Law.

Answered by Alex Chalk

The independent and expert panel has begun its work, issuing a call for evidence which closes in October.

The panel will then move to consider this evidence and make their report.