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Experiments On Mice And Rats

EDM number 602 in 1995-96, proposed by Ken Livingstone on 12/03/1996.

That this House notes that the National Anti-Vivisection Society has evidence of overbreeding of laboratory rats and mice, and that all surplus animals are bred simply to be gassed, in particular that at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, breeding records show that of a total of 52,435 rodents over a one year period, just 15,198 (29 per cent) were used for experiments, 7 per cent. died before being weaned, and 68 per cent, (33,348 animals) were killed, usually gassed; further notes that massive overbreeding has been found in other London laboratories, and that the National Anti-Vivisection Society has suggested that the suffering could be reduced if the London medical schools were made to share their animal supplies; notes that whilst Home Office statistics show 2.3 million rats and mice were used in experiments in 1994, the breeding records from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and, previously, St.Mary's Medical School, indicate the real figure of rodents killed in laboratories is closer to 4.7 million per annum and that there is no doubt these animals suffer greatly from factory farming methods used to produce them in bare plastic boxes with nothing of interest to occupy them, and death by suffocation with CO2 gas; and calls on the Home Office to respond in light of these new figures.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ken Livingstone12/03/1996Brent EastProposed
Michael Connarty13/03/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe13/03/1996LeighSigned
Mike Hall13/03/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Harry Barnes13/03/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Gerry Steinberg13/03/1996Durham, City ofSigned
Alan Simpson14/03/1996Nottingham SouthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn14/03/1996Islington NorthSigned
Chris Davies14/03/1996Littleborough and SaddleworthSigned
Robert Parry18/03/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Tony Banks18/03/1996Newham North WestSigned
Neil Gerrard18/03/1996WalthamstowSigned
Keith Hill18/03/1996StreathamSigned
Peter Hardy18/03/1996WentworthSigned
Audrey Wise19/03/1996PrestonSigned
Tommy Graham19/03/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Eddie Loyden19/03/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Andrew Faulds19/03/1996Warley EastSigned
John Cummings19/03/1996EasingtonSigned
Michael Clapham19/03/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Nigel Jones19/03/1996CheltenhamSigned
John Heppell19/03/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Piara S Khabra20/03/1996Ealing, SouthallSigned
Nick Harvey21/03/1996North DevonSigned
John Gunnell27/03/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
Bill Etherington28/03/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Martyn Jones23/04/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Diane Abbott25/04/1996Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
John Fraser29/04/1996NorwoodSigned
Andrew Bowden30/04/1996Brighton, KemptownSigned
David Atkinson14/05/1996Bournemouth EastSigned
Frank Field04/06/1996BirkenheadSigned
Simon Hughes06/06/1996Southwark and BermondseySigned

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