Written Question·Home Office·UIN 66754

Animal Experiments: Licensing

Tabled: 10 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of transferring responsibility for the licensing of animal testing to the (a) Department for Environment, Food and Rural

Answer

Dan Jarvis
It is the responsibility of the Cabinet Office to consider the benefits of any changes to the allocation of responsibilities between different government departments.