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Medicine: Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps with UK Research and Innovation to increase the proportion of biomedical research funding available for research projects that use non-animal new approach methodol
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps with UK Research and Innovation to increase the proportion of biomedical research funding available for research projects that use non-animal new approach methodol
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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16 Oct 2024
Answer published
In accordance with UK legislation UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) only fund animal research where there is no suitable non-animal alternative available. Around 70% of research funded by their Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Me...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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