Sarah Champion MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Shellfish: Animal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21608 on Cephalopods and Shellfish: Animal Welfare, what estimate she has made of when the Animals in Science Committee will conclude its work on
Answer: The Home Office does not require advice from the Animals in Science Committee at this stage but will be guided by decisions made under the Animal Welfare Act regarding any consideration as to whether decapod crustaceans are regulated under the Animals (Sc...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the lethal dose 50 test.
Answer: The UK continues to lead the way in seeking the adoption internationally of improved testing methods that replace, reduce or refine the use of animals in scientific procedures.Some authorised medicines in the UK include quality control tests which require...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry: Department for EducationHome OfficeTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 30996, what powers the Ministers from the Department for Education have been delegated in relation to implementing IICSA.
Answer: The recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (the Inquiry) covered a broad range of issues and departmental responsibilities, including reforms to the child protection system, improving data, awareness-raising and supporting vict...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Independent Panel InquiryHome OfficeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28486 on Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry, which Ministers sit on the cross-Government ministerial group that are considering remaini
Answer: The Home Office set up an inter-ministerial group in late 2024, which I chaired the first meeting on the 12th November 2024.Ministers from the Home Office, Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Justice...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Independent Panel InquiryHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse final report, published in October 2022, which Department has lead responsibility for implementing the recommendations of that report.
Answer: The Home Office has the lead responsibly across Government for tackling child sexual abuse. However, the final 20 recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse are wide-ranging and cut across multiple Government departments lead respo...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: ShellfishHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the Animals in Science Committee to conclude its work on future options for the regulation of the use of decapod crustaceans in scientific research.
Answer: The Home Office will be guided by decisions made under the Animal Welfare Act regarding any consideration as to whether decapod crustaceans are regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procures) Act.The Home Office does not require additional advice from t...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the (a) Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology and (b) Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on (i) coordinated action to d
Answer: This Government has made a commitment to the development of alternative methodologies to the use of animals in science and Lord Hanson has held discussions on the delivery of that commitment with Ministers for the Department of Science, Innovation and Tec...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCars: Digital TechnologyHome OfficeTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15774More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 24 October to Question 11004 on Cars: Digital Technology, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the misuse of digitally connected cars by domestic abusers.
Answer: This Government has set out our ambition to halve violence against women and girls within a decade, and that will include tackling domestic abuse in all its forms.Digitally connected cars could risk the safety of women and girls if perpetrators can use th...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6246 on Animal Experiments, what harms were experienced by dogs used in research on muscular dystrophy; and how much funding is being provided for
Answer: The Home Office assigns severity classification to protocols in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (as amended) which is published at: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/14/contents. The classification takes account of the...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordProstitution: RotherhamHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to help victims of sexual exploitation exit prostitution in Rotherham.
Answer: The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has set out a mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all the levers available to us to deliver this ambition.The ...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: CatsHome OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6247More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain in 2023, published by her Department on 11 September 2024, what the aims were for the 63 experimenta
Answer: The Home Office publish non-technical summaries of all programmes of work concluded under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#non-technical-summaries. For programmes...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain in 2023, published by her Department on 11 September 2024, what the project aims were for the 21 pro
Answer: Research to develop a treatment for improving the length and quality of life for patients with muscular dystrophy utilises a dog model which has a harmful phenotype.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: ShellfishHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of the Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023; and what recent estimate she has made of when the Animals in Science Committee will report on options for
Answer: Following earlier research and reports on this issue, the next step is for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to decide whether to regulate Decapods under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.Any decision of publication of earl...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNature Conservation: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 26 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make wildlife crimes notifiable; and whether she plans to include those crimes in national statistics.
Answer: This Government recognises the importance of tackling wildlife crime, which is why, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit to help tackle these crimes.There are no...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
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