Animal Experiments: Licensing — Written Question

Question

Dan Norris

Independent — North East Somerset and Hanham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many project licences for animal testing have been approved in the last five years; and what proportion of those included conditions requiring the use of New Approach Methodologies where available

Answer

Dan Jarvis

The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 does not allow testing on animals where there is a validated non-animal alternative available that would achieve the scientific outcomes sought.The number of project licences granted are published in the Regula...

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