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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any operations have taken place using animal organs specifically for transplants in the UK.

Asked by
Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 January 2022
Reference
98285
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether operations have taken place in the UK using animal organs for transplants.

Asked by
Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party)
Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 December 2021
Reference
80997
House
House of Commons

That this House notes the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's (PHSO) investigation report PA-2823, which rejects Uncaged's complaint against the Home Office's regulation of Imutran's pig-to-primate organ transplant research, laid before Parliament in December 2006; further notes that Uncaged won a legal battle having asserted Home Office maladministration in this...

Primary sponsor
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
18 June 2007
Reference
1718
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Date
12 December 2006
Reference
DEP 06/2249
House
House of Lords; House of Commons

My honourable friend the Minister of State, Department of Health (Andy Burnham) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I am announcing today changes to the arrangements for approval of xenotransplantation procedures. Xenotransplantation is the use of live cells, tissues and organs from animal sources for transplants into humans. It...

Member
Lord Warner (Labour)
Department
Department of Health
Type
Written statements
Date
12 December 2006
Reference
687 c181-2WS
House
House of Lords

I am announcing today changes to the arrangements for approval of xenotransplantation procedures. Xenotransplantation is the use of live cells, tissues and organs from animal sources for transplants into humans. It can be viewed as a partial solution to the ongoing shortage of human organs and tissues for transplantation. It...

Member
Andy Burnham (Labour)
Department
Department of Health
Type
Written statements
Date
12 December 2006
Reference
454 c80WS
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many applications for a licence to conduct xenotransplantation experiments involving pig organs in the UK have been (a) submitted, (b) rejected and (c) granted since January 2001;

Asked by
David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 November 2006
Reference
105860; 453 c785W
House
House of Commons

(2) when he last met the UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority.

Asked by
David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 November 2006
Reference
453 c785W; 105861
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the recent World Health Organisation report on xenotransplantation; and what plans she has (a) to improve regulations and (b) to promote ethical standards in this area.

Asked by
David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 June 2005
Reference
154; 434 c260W;434 c262W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8th December, 428 c650W, on xenotransplantation, what steps he took to ascertain that all of the animals were cynomolgous macaques; and what time period the information relates to.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 January 2005
Reference
207045; 430 c135W
House
House of Commons

That this House welcomes the historic legal victory achieved by Uncaged Campaigns, allowing publication, in the public interest, of documents and a report describing Imutran/Novartis primate xenotransplantation research programme at Huntingdon Life Sciences; notes that the evidence contained within these documents, together with the fact of Uncaged Campaigns' victory, raises...

Primary sponsor
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
20 December 2004
Reference
435
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Animal Procedures Committee was informed that Imutran primates on moderate procedures had been found dead; and what form the communication took.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 December 2004
Reference
199892; 428 c1162W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the basis is of his understanding that a mediation process has taken place between Imutran/Novartis and Lyons/Uncaged.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 December 2004
Reference
200026; 428 c1193W
House
House of Commons

Written Statement on the referral of project licence applications made under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to the Animal Procedures Committee. (Inc ref to 17 December 2003 415 c137-8WS).

Member
Caroline Flint (Labour)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Date
15 December 2004
Reference
428 c141-2WS
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the unpublished documents on which he based his assessment that moderate severity limits had not been broken during xenotransplantation research by Imutran; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 December 2004
Reference
200024; 428 c650W;428 c625W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the species was of each primate in procedures of moderate severity as part of the Imutran xenotransplantation programme found dead (a) in the peri- and post- surgical period, (b) having suffered significant clinical findings and (c) at (i) five,...

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 December 2004
Reference
200025; 428 c650W;428 c625W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what infringement action has been taken under section 6(6) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 against (a) named day-to-day care persons and (b) named veterinary surgeons employed by Huntingdon Life Sciences, in respect of failures to make arrangements for...

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 December 2004
Reference
199985; 428 c624W;428 c624-5W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the evidential basis was for point one of the Home Office response to 12 questions raised by Dan Lyons, Uncaged Campaigns, about Imutran xenotransplantation research licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 December 2004
Reference
199910; 428 c624W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether lethal endpoints were expected in (a) project licence authorities and (b) other communications between his Department, the Animal Procedures Committee and Imutran xenotransplantation procedures with a moderate severity limit.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 December 2004
Reference
199911; 428 c624W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the increase in the number of procedures involving animals compiled under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Asked by
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 October 2004
Reference
188098; 425 c161-2W
House
House of Commons