Written Question·Home Office·UIN 13925
Animal Experiments: Dogs
Tabled: 29 June 2026
Answered: 6 July 2026
Question
Fleur Anderson
Labour — Putney
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the levels of the use of dogs at the MBR Acres facility in Cambridgeshire; and whether she plans to take steps to end the breeding and supply of dogs for scientific tes
Answer
Sarah JonesPharmaceutical legislation requires that, before a medicine can be approved for testing in humans, it is tested in a rodent and non-rodent species under international guidelines. This may include dogs as an appropriate model. The number of Beagles bred is...
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