Animal Experiments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain for 2024; and what funding her Department has allocated for research into alternative testing methods.
Answered by Dan Jarvis
The Annual Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2024 will be published on October 23, 2025.
The Government is committed to the development of non-animal alternatives and will publish a strategy to support their development, validation and adoption.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has a diverse portfolio of investments that supports research which can lead to alternatives, such as organ-on-a-chip, cell-based assays, functional genomics and computer modelling. UKRI also invests £10 million annually in the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). The Government also co-funds seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), two focusing on AI which will support alternative method development.
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