Written Question·Home Office·UIN 54061

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 steps her Department is taking to help ensure that an adequate justification is provided when animals are used in antibody production.

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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