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Freedom Of Information And Animal Experimentation

EDM number 1908 in 2008-09, proposed by Mike Hancock on 16/07/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Animal experiments and Freedom of information.

That this House notes that section 24 of the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, as recently interpreted by the Court of Appeal, prevents the Home Office from disclosing all information, however trivial, about animal experiments that researchers want kept secret; agrees that information such as researchers' names and addresses and genuinely confidential information should remain secret; but believes that the public should be able to access all other information, including what is being done to the animals and for what purpose; and calls on the Government to repeal section 24 using its powers under section 75 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Hancock16/07/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratProposed
David Drew16/07/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Bob Russell16/07/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Nigel Evans16/07/2009Ribble ValleyConservativeSeconded
Lee Scott16/07/2009Ilford NorthConservativeSeconded
John Mason16/07/2009Glasgow EastScottish National PartySeconded
Adrian Sanders20/07/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes20/07/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Lindsay Hoyle20/07/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
Lynne Jones20/07/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn20/07/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
Mark Durkan20/07/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Taylor20/07/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Alan Simpson21/07/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Rowen21/07/2009RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech21/07/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Weir21/07/2009AngusScottish National PartySigned
Peter Bottomley21/07/2009Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Martin Caton21/07/2009GowerLabourSigned
John McDonnell21/07/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins21/07/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Simon Hughes21/07/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker12/10/2009LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Glenda Jackson12/10/2009Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan13/10/2009Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Frank Cook13/10/2009Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Paddy Tipping13/10/2009SherwoodLabourSigned
Robert Wareing13/10/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Katy Clark13/10/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Rudi Vis14/10/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/10/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard19/10/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell19/10/2009Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington22/10/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Janet Anderson26/10/2009Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Mark Williams26/10/2009CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Horwood26/10/2009CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams26/10/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Nick Palmer27/10/2009BroxtoweLabourSigned
Eric Martlew27/10/2009CarlisleLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson28/10/2009North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Pete Wishart02/11/2009Perth and North PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Ian Stewart04/11/2009EcclesLabourSigned
Stephen Pound09/11/2009Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Ian Cawsey11/11/2009Brigg and GooleLabourSigned
John Austin11/11/2009Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned

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