Question follow-through · 53358
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department is taking steps with animal protection organisations to phase out animal experimentation.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department is taking steps with animal protection organisations to phase out animal experimentation.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
The Labour Manifesto includes a commitment to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasing out of animal testing”. The government will publish a strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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