Question follow-through · 54060
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on replacing the use of animals with non-animal methods for antibody production; and whether her Department is taking steps to accelerate this process.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on replacing the use of animals with non-animal methods for antibody production; and whether her Department is taking steps to accelerate this process.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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3 Jun 2025
Answer published
Following a review by the Animals in Science Committee in 2022 on licences for the production of antibodies, the Animals in Science Regulator implemented published changes to strengthen the requirement for robust justifications. This included an additiona...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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