Written Question·Home Office·UIN 49017

Animal Experiments

Tabled: 29 April 2025

Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Wera Hobhouse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the letter from Lord Sharpe of Epsom responding to the Animals in Science Committee forced swim test report, published on 5 March 2024, what the deadline is for ending the use of for

Answer

Dan Jarvis

The Home Office wrote to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology and the UKRI in February 2024 to consider the recommendation to request further research into non-animal methods to replace the Forced Swim Test (FST).The Home Office Regulator ...

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