<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>6106</id>
<session>1992-93</session>
<number>1535</number>
<title>Animal Experiments</title>
<proposer id="16732">Andrew Bowden</proposer>
<date>1993-03-04</date>
<text>That this House notes with concern the malpractice uncovered at Wickham Laboratories, owned by Mr William Cartmell, who is a qualified veterinary surgeon, by a British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection investigation; notes that this included the falsification of test weights, holding animals in conditions that fail to meet minimum Home Office standards, failing to properly maintain equipment for humanely killing animals and leaving this task to untrained staff; is further concerned that the Home Office Inspectorate failed to prevent this malpractice and that licences were issued for experiments for which alternatives appeared to be available or were not required by relevant United Kingdom and EC regulatory bodies; notes that this is the fifth such investigation in four years, all of which have revealed problems with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and therefore calls for the withdrawal of Wickham Laboratories' certificate to conduct animal experiments and for an independent review of the operation of the 1986 Act.</text>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="16732">Andrew Bowden</mp>
		<date>1993-03-04</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Kemptown</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10298">Simon Hughes</mp>
		<date>1993-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southwark and Bermondsey</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10444">Elliot Morley</mp>
		<date>1993-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glanford and Scunthorpe</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1993-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1993-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1993-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1993-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10114">Eric Clarke</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10135">Jean Corston</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol East</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10145">Lawrence Cunliffe</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leigh</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="17257">Jimmy Dunnachie</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Pollok</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10478">Colin Pickthall</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Lancashire</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10486">Bridget Prentice</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewisham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22158">Roy Hughes</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport East</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="18209">Liz Lynne</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10379">Ian McCartney</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Makerfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18408">William McKelvey</mp>
		<date>1993-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10176">Jim Dowd</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewisham West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22255">John Evans</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Helens North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10012">Janet Anderson</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rossendale &amp; Darwen</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10028">John Battle</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10597">Paddy Tipping</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sherwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16411">Mike Watson</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21687">Bryan Davies</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Oldham Central and Royton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10118">David Clelland</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tyne Bridge</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10492">Ken Purchase</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton North East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10275">John Heppell</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10280">David Hinchliffe</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wakefield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21776">Doug Hoyle</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10434">Alan Milburn</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Darlington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22610">Alex Carlile</mp>
		<date>1993-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Montgomery</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10253">Mike Hall</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10250">John Gunnell</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds South and Morley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10076">Richard Burden</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Northfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10303">John Hutton</mp>
		<date>1993-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barrow &amp; Furness</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17366">Andrew Faulds</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10182">Angela Eagle</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wallasey</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10092">Jamie Cann</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ipswich</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10451">Chris Mullin</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10297">Kevin Hughes</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Doncaster North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10285">Jimmy Hood</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clydesdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10556">Clive Soley</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hammersmith</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10566">Gerry Steinberg</mp>
		<date>1993-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>1993-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1993-03-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1993-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22634">Jack Thompson</mp>
		<date>1993-03-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16394">James Kilfedder</mp>
		<date>1993-03-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Down</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10656">Tony Wright</mp>
		<date>1993-03-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cannock and Burntwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10208">Don Foster</mp>
		<date>1993-03-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bath</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1993-03-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>1993-03-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10309">Helen Jackson</mp>
		<date>1993-03-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Hillsborough</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10224">Neil Gerrard</mp>
		<date>1993-03-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Walthamstow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22117">Robert Parry</mp>
		<date>1993-03-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Riverside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10483">Greg Pope</mp>
		<date>1993-03-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hyndburn</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10463">Bill Olner</mp>
		<date>1993-04-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>1993-05-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10123">Harry Cohen</mp>
		<date>1993-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leyton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10252">Peter Hain</mp>
		<date>1993-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Neath</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1993-05-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10282">Kate Hoey</mp>
		<date>1993-05-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Vauxhall</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10495">Giles Radice</mp>
		<date>1993-05-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Durham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10636">John Wilkinson</mp>
		<date>1993-05-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ruislip - Northwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10292">George Howarth</mp>
		<date>1993-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10095">Bill Cash</mp>
		<date>1993-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stafford</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10016">Joe Ashton</mp>
		<date>1993-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bassetlaw</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22641">Mildred Gordon</mp>
		<date>1993-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bow and Poplar</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10074">Malcolm Bruce</mp>
		<date>1993-07-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gordon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10247">Bruce Grocott</mp>
		<date>1993-07-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wrekin, The</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10450">George Mudie</mp>
		<date>1993-07-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10053">Richard Body</mp>
		<date>1993-07-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Holland with Boston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10052">Paul Boateng</mp>
		<date>1993-07-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21987">John Gorst</mp>
		<date>1993-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hendon North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10122">Ann Coffey</mp>
		<date>1993-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockport</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10525">Alex Salmond</mp>
		<date>1993-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Banff &amp; Buchan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10461">Mike O'Brien</mp>
		<date>1993-07-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Warwickshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10540">Clare Short</mp>
		<date>1993-07-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Ladywood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1993-07-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10294">Kim Howells</mp>
		<date>1993-07-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pontypridd</constituency>
		<party></party>
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