Animal Experiments

Home Office written question – answered at on 6 September 2024.

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Photo of Alex Mayer Alex Mayer Labour, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish a list of animal tests replaced by non-animal methods since 2010.

Photo of Dan Jarvis Dan Jarvis The Minister of State, Home Department

The use of animals in scientific procedures is only authorised by the Home Office Regulator where there is clear scientific benefit, to people, animals, or the environment, and only when all aspects of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 have been fulfilled.

Licence applicants are required to robustly evidence their consideration of alternative methods. The Regulator reviews all licence applications and will only issue a licence once it is satisfied there are no practicable alternative methods.

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