Written Question·Home Office·UIN 54060

Animal Experiments

Tabled: 21 May 2025
Answered: 3 June 2025

Question

Steve Race

LabourExeter

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 Jarvis
Following 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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