ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Early day motion 435, tabled 7 July 2010 by Philip Davies (Conservative). Signed by 182 members.

That this House supports the pledge published in the programme for Government to work to reduce the use of animals in scientific reasearch; and calls on the Government to develop a strategy which identifies and implements targets for sustained reductions in the number of animals used annually in experiments in the UK in order to fulfil this pledge.

Signatures by party: Labour 113, Liberal Democrat 34, Conservative 17, DUP 5, Scottish National Party 5, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Alliance 1, Green 1, Independent 1.