Question follow-through · 128384

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 202

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 20 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2026
Answer: 27 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 202
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to strengthening guidance on adventitious agents testing in due course, as set out in the strategy.The use of animals in science in the UK continues to be regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which requ...

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