Member

Some of the accounts of what goes in the site that provoked this statutory instrument are very harrowing and there is no doubt that we should know more about it. Liberal Democrats support repealing Section 24 of the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to improve public access to information. We need transparency to debate properly what is being done in the public interest that is unnecessary, cruel and inhumane. However, in the end, whether noble Lords vote for the fatal amendment depends on whether they feel it matters that the Government take us for fools, or that legislation passed in your Lordships’ House should say what it means.