Written Question·Home Office·UIN 54060
Animal Experiments
Tabled: 21 May 2025
Answered: 3 June 2025
Question
Steve Race
Labour — Exeter
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on replacing the use of animals with non-animal methods for antibody production; and whether her Department is taking steps to accelerate this process.
Answer
Dan JarvisFollowing a review by the Animals in Science Committee in 2022 on licences for the production of antibodies, the Animals in Science Regulator implemented published changes to strengthen the requirement for robust justifications. This included an additiona...
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