Question follow-through · 32893
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The UK Government is committed to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternatives exist and under controls which keep suffering to a minimum. The GB pesticides r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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