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Animal Testing Of Drugs

EDM number 92A1 in 2005-06, proposed by Evan Harris on 25/07/2006.

leave out from `House' to end and insert `is concerned about any unnecessary suffering of animals and insists on the toughest possible regulation of medical research using animals to the highest possible welfare standards and only where other effective options are not available; recognises however that medical research using animals is currently both essential and valuable; believes that efforts should be directed at the 3Rs - refining techniques to reduce suffering, replacing animals with non-animal techniques when these become available and reducing as far as possible the number of animals used; notes that complaints against claims made by Europeans for Medical Progress (EMP) that harm is posed to humans through animal experimentation methods have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority; further notes that the polling organisation which asked GPs their views on animal testing has disassociated itself from the interpretation put on the poll by EMP; and notes there have already been numerous independent inquiries into animal research and its efficacy including by a House of Lords Select Committee, the Animal Procedures Committee and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, all of which have concluded that the use of animals in medical research and drug safety testing is valid and, at present, necessary.'.

This is a ammendment to 92.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Evan Harris25/07/2006Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratProposed
Christopher Huhne25/07/2006EastleighLiberal DemocratSeconded
Alan Beith25/07/2006Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Howarth25/07/2006CambridgeLiberal DemocratSeconded
Sarah Teather25/07/2006Brent EastLiberal DemocratSeconded
Vincent Cable25/07/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSeconded
Michael Moore25/07/2006Berwickshire, Roxburgh and SelkirkLiberal DemocratSigned
Julia Goldsworthy25/07/2006Falmouth and CamborneLiberal DemocratSigned
Steve Webb25/07/2006NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Don Foster25/07/2006BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Davey25/07/2006Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Clegg25/07/2006Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Menzies Campbell25/07/2006North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Burstow25/07/2006Sutton and CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb25/07/2006North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
David Heath25/07/2006Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Begg06/11/2006Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned

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