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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoo Animals Fund
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for the allocation of remaining funds from the £100 million Zoo Animals Fund after that fund's expiry on 29 January 2021.

Asked 6 January 2021
Answered 11 January 2021
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoo Animals Fund
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 implications for his policy on the £100 million Zoo Animals Fund of (a) the fund expiry date of 29 January 2021, (b) the absence of a replacement and...

Asked 6 January 2021
Answered 11 January 2021
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
134096
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoo Animals Fund
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which zoos and safari parks have accessed the £100 million Zoo Animals Fund.

Asked 12 November 2020
Answered 17 November 2020
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoos Support Fund
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which zoos and safari parks have accessed the Zoos Support Fund set up in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked 4 November 2020
Answered 9 November 2020
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
111608
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Experiments: Chemicals
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will make it its policy to end the duplication of chemical testing on animals.

Asked 7 October 2020
Answered 16 October 2020
By Rebecca Pow (Conservative, Taunton Deane)
100537
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Question for Treasury
Employment: Coronavirus
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support he plans to provide to people shielding with blood cancer who are unable to work from home and whose workplaces cannot be made covid-safe as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme closes.

Asked 15 September 2020
Answered 23 September 2020
By Jesse Norman (Conservative, Hereford and South Herefordshire)
90228
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Commons
Question for Home Office
Asylum: Finance
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) provide refugees and asylum seekers with (i) additional financial support and (ii) support with their travel during the covid-19 outbreak and (b) support social distanc...

Asked 28 August 2020
Answered 7 September 2020
By Chris Philp (Conservative, Croydon South)
82338
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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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, what type of tests comprised the 92 procedures conducted on dog...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 3 September 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13059
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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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, what the five experiments were that were conducted on dogs for...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 3 September 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13058
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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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, for what reason there has been an increase in the number of no...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 3 September 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13056
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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 Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, for what reason there was a 7 per cent increase in the use of animals in h...

Asked 20 January 2020
Answered 1 September 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
5531
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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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, for what reason there has been a 16 per cent increase in dog us...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 1 September 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13057
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Commons
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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, what type of tests made up the 24,284 regulatory tests conducte...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 23 July 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13061
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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 report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, what the legislative requirements were that satisfied in relati...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 23 July 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13060
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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, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce the number of animals used for scientific procedures in higher education and training and (b) encourage organisations in that sector to seek replacements for the ...

Asked 5 February 2020
Answered 23 July 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
13055
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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoos Support Fund
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which zoos and safari parks have accessed the Coronavirus Zoos Support Fund.

Asked 23 June 2020
Answered 29 June 2020
By Victoria Prentis (Conservative, Banbury)
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Question for Treasury
Welfare Tax Credits
Alex Sobel
Labour, Leeds North West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit renewal letters were (a) sent out and (b) responded to in 2019.

Asked 18 May 2020
Answered 22 May 2020
By Jesse Norman (Conservative, Hereford and South Herefordshire)
48600
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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, whether her Department has received reports of laboratories euthanising animals due to (a) staff working from home, self-isolating, being sick or furloughed and (b) reduced demand as a result of the c...

Asked 20 April 2020
Answered 6 May 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
37929
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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, what plans she has to ensure that animals in laboratories are cared for and protected in the event that laboratory staff are self-isolating, sick, working from home or on reduced hours as a result of ...

Asked 20 April 2020
Answered 6 May 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
37926
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Commons
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 effect of covid-19 on the running of animal laboratories, if she will hold discussions with owners of animal laboratories to ensure that an assessment of the potential merits of ...

Asked 20 April 2020
Answered 6 May 2020
By Victoria Atkins (Conservative, Louth and Horncastle)
37927
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Commons
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