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<id>39549</id>
<session>2009-10</session>
<number>12</number>
<title>Use Of Animals To Test Food Additives</title>
<proposer id="10521">Bob Russell</proposer>
<date>2009-11-18</date>
<text>That this House notes that the Home Office's Statistics for Scientific Procedures on Living Animals for 2006 recorded a 368.4 per cent. rise in the number of animals used to test food additives, from 862 animals in 2005 to 4,038 animals in 2006; is concerned at the Written Answer of 11 October 2007 that states that these animals are being used to test ingredients such as stabilisers, sweeteners, colourants and flavouring agents; further notes that the 2006 statistics also recorded a 30.2 per cent. rise in the number of animals used for the purposes of other foodstuffs, from 5,742 animals in 2005 to 7,477 animals in 2006; and calls on the Government to back the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection's call to stop granting licences for experiments on animals for the purpose of testing food additives and other foodstuffs as a matter of urgency.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Animal experiments</topic>
</topics>
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		<date>2009-11-18</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
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		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<date>2009-11-18</date>
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		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<date>2009-11-18</date>
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		<date>2009-11-18</date>
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		<party>Independent</party>
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		<date>2009-11-18</date>
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		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<date>2009-11-19</date>
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		<date>2009-11-19</date>
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		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<date>2009-11-19</date>
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		<date>2009-11-23</date>
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		<date>2009-11-23</date>
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		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
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		<date>2009-11-25</date>
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		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2009-11-25</date>
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		<constituency>Glasgow East</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
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		<date>2009-11-26</date>
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		<constituency>Finchley and Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2009-11-26</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2009-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11148">Albert Owen</mp>
		<date>2009-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>2009-11-26</date>
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		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10313">Brian Jenkins</mp>
		<date>2009-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tamworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10331">Paul Keetch</mp>
		<date>2009-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hereford</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2009-11-30</date>
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		<date>2009-12-01</date>
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		<constituency>Derby North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2009-12-01</date>
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		<constituency>Pudsey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="13712">Willie Rennie</mp>
		<date>2009-12-02</date>
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		<constituency>Dunfermline and West Fife</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10790">Colin Challen</mp>
		<date>2009-12-02</date>
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		<constituency>Morley and Rothwell</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>2009-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10141">David Crausby</mp>
		<date>2009-12-07</date>
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		<constituency>Bolton North East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10022">Norman Baker</mp>
		<date>2009-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewes</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10578">Andrew Stunell</mp>
		<date>2009-12-07</date>
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		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10780">Gregory Campbell</mp>
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		<party>Independent</party>
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		<date>2009-12-10</date>
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		<date>2009-12-14</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10123">Harry Cohen</mp>
		<date>2009-12-16</date>
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		<constituency>Leyton and Wanstead</constituency>
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		<constituency>Falmouth and Camborne</constituency>
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		<constituency>Ealing North</constituency>
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		<mp id="10176">Jim Dowd</mp>
		<date>2010-01-21</date>
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		<constituency>Lewisham West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10608">Desmond Turner</mp>
		<date>2010-02-22</date>
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		<constituency>Brighton, Kemptown</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10032">Anne Begg</mp>
		<date>2010-03-02</date>
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		<constituency>Aberdeen South</constituency>
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		<mp id="10174">Frank Doran</mp>
		<date>2010-03-09</date>
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		<constituency>Aberdeen North</constituency>
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		<mp id="11221">Jim Sheridan</mp>
		<date>2010-03-11</date>
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		<constituency>Paisley and Renfrewshire North</constituency>
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		<date>2010-03-17</date>
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		<constituency>Dumfries and Galloway</constituency>
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		<mp id="10442">Julie Morgan</mp>
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		<constituency>Cardiff North</constituency>
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		<mp id="10465">Lembit </mp>
		<date>2010-03-25</date>
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		<constituency>Montgomeryshire</constituency>
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