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Question for Home Office
Animal Welfare: Licensing
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for project licences to conduct experiments on animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were refused permission in each year between Janu...

Asked 5 July 2022
Answered 11 July 2022
By Tom Pursglove (Conservative, Corby)
31226
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Licensing
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for project licences to conduct experiments on animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were refused permission between January and December 2021.

Asked 13 June 2022
Answered 16 June 2022
By Tom Pursglove (Conservative, Corby)
17097
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Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Production
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to (a) provide financial assistance to farmers to enable higher quantities of food to be produced in the UK and (b) support increased food produc...

Asked 12 May 2022
Answered 16 June 2022
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
1322
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Licensing
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for project licences to conduct experiments on animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were refused permission between January and December 2021.

Asked 6 June 2022
Answered 14 June 2022
By Damian Hinds (Conservative, East Hampshire)
13235
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoos: Animal Welfare
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans for a further consultation on proposed updates to the Standards of Modern Zoo Practice, having had regard for the feedback received from stakeholders during the co...

Asked 1 June 2022
Answered 13 June 2022
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
11853
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Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoos: Animal Welfare
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that changes being proposed to the Standards of Modern Zoo Practice are (a) proportionate and (b) justified, in order to ensure that appropriate standar...

Asked 1 June 2022
Answered 13 June 2022
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
11854
Answered
Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pigs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a compensation scheme for pig farmers who are unable to sell their animals to slaughter due to a lack of butchers.

Asked 7 March 2022
Answered 17 March 2022
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
135629
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Commons
Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pigs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to clear the backlog of pigs on UK farms due to the shortage of butchers to avoid more animals being killed and disposed of.

Asked 7 March 2022
Answered 16 March 2022
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
135628
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Commons
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Animal Experiments
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Centre for Economics and Business Research report, The economic impact of the UK’s New Approach Methodologies sector, on behalf of Animal Free Research UK, p...

Asked 15 October 2021
Answered 20 October 2021
By George Freeman (Conservative, Mid Norfolk)
57309
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Commons
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Animal Experiments
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Centre for Economics and Business Research report, The economic impact of the UK’s New Approach Methodologies sector, on behalf of Animal Free Research UK, p...

Asked 15 October 2021
Answered 20 October 2021
By George Freeman (Conservative, Mid Norfolk)
57311
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Commons
Question for Department for Transport
Road Traffic: Cats
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to give cats the same protections as dogs under the Road Traffic Act1988.

Asked 3 September 2021
Answered 8 September 2021
By Rachel Maclean (Conservative, Redditch)
42088
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Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the publication of the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain for 2020, what harms were experienced by the 10 dogs who were genetically altered...

Asked 19 July 2021
Answered 22 July 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
35874
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Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the publication of the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain for 2020, what factors have contributed to the increase in procedures using dogs,...

Asked 19 July 2021
Answered 22 July 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
35873
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, for what reason there has been a 16 per cent increase in dog use since 201...

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 29 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18574
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, which legislative requirements were satisfied by the 252 procedures conduc...

Asked 21 June 2021
Answered 29 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
19664
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Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain that showed a seven per cent increase in scientific procedures on living animals in higher...

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 28 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18572
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Inspections
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the number of inspections of animal testing establishments carried out between 2011 and 2018 decreased.

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 28 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18584
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, what types of test made up the 92 procedures conducted on dogs to satisfy ...

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 28 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18576
Answered
Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, what the five experiments that were conducted on dogs for the purpose of p...

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 28 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18575
Answered
Commons
Question for Home Office
Animal Experiments: Primates
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, for what reason the number of non-human primates used for the first time in experimental...

Asked 18 June 2021
Answered 28 June 2021
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
18573
Answered
Commons
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