Question follow-through · 23680
Research: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of public funding allocated to the development, validation and uptake of human-specific research methods each year between
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- Answering body
- Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of public funding allocated to the development, validation and uptake of human-specific research methods each year between
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) invests in a range of human-specific research that does not rely on animal studies. Many studies developing and using human-specific and alternative methods are classified as basic research, so any funding values given wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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10 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, how much funding was provided to the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research in each year from 2020 to 2025; and what proportion of tha
Animal Experiments
10 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the use of animals in scientific procedures undertaken to meet regulatory requirements outside the UK and EU.