Westminster Hall
27 April 2026
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Chamber House of Commons
00:27 - 00:30
Speaker 1
Order. Irene Campbell to move the motion. I
00:32 - 02:39
Speaker 2
beg to move that this house is considered e petition seven three six five seven eight relating to animal testing. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, mister Twigg. I would like to start by declaring an interest as the chair of the all party parliamentary group on phasing out animal experiments in medical research, supported by the secretary on animal free research. I am a long campaigner in this area, as well as many other topics relating to animal welfare, and it is important to me and many others that animals are replaced in research as soon as possible. The petition created by Maria Eriart from Camp Beagle is named end testing on dogs and other animals for development of products for human use.
And it goes on to say, many tests on dogs and other animals cause unimaginable suffering. They can translate poorly into effective treatments and cures for human diseases or provide safety and efficacy data that is not relevant to humans. Over 90% of drugs that appear safe and effective in animals do not go on to receive FDA USA approval. In 2023, 2,605,528 animals were used for the first time in scientific procedures, including 2,477 dogs and eighteen fifteen primates. Animals are bred and housed in bleak conditions and then used in tests that can cause immense physical and psychological suffering.
We think government led action is required to radically divert funding and evolve policy to implement the use of existing and the development of new non animal methodologies or NAMS. We believe the current testing paradigm is failing both animals and humans, and is actually holding back medical advances. This petition has collected over, well actually almost 121,000 signatures, which is a great achievement, and it's good to see Maria in the gallery today. A 121 of those signatures were from my own constituency of North Ayrshire and Arran. I know this is a topic many people care deeply about, and I have received many emails from constituents, as well as from members of the public living in other constituencies.
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