Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 52363
Drugs: Testing
Tabled: 14 May 2025
Answered: 19 May 2025
Named DayQuestion
Ben Obese-Jecty
Conservative — Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list those medicines used by the NHS that were subject to (a) animal and (b) non-animal testing in the UK as part of the pre-clinical testing process.
Answer
Karin SmythCompiling a list of all the products that were developed with and without animal testing would take the medicine regulator a significant and disproportionate amount of time and resources.Whilst new medicines are usually tested in animals, unless there is ...
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