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.
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