Written Question·Home Office·UIN 47004

Animal Experiments: Dogs

Tabled: 22 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to data table 7.2 of her Department's statistics entitled Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2023: data tables, published on 11 September 2024,

Answer

Dan Jarvis
We are working with regulators to see how advances in technology can and will reduce use and phase out use in some areas.The explicit requirement for using animals in toxicology tests comes from section 50 (5) to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (as a...

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