| Heading: |
Animal Experiments |
| Question ID: |
1795749 |
| UIN: |
47005 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5141 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Mayer
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alex Mayer
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many regulatory tests were carried out on animals where non-animal methods were available in 2024. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4243 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dan Jarvis
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| Answering Member handle: |
DanJarvisMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DanJarvisMP
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| Answer text: |
The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) protects animals in scientific research by prohibiting their use if there is a practicable and validated non-animal alternative that would achieve the scientific outcome(s) sought. |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |