Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 8 June 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 95 members in total.

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION

That this House notes that section 24 of the Animals (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 of the 1986 Act using its powers under section 75 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

172 

Session

2010-12

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Alan Meale

Martin Caton

Mark Durkan

Adrian Sanders

Subjects

Animal experiments Freedom of information

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk