Animal Experiments
Commons · Question 49017 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 8 May 2025
Question
Asked by Wera Hobhouse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the letter from Lord Sharpe of Epsom responding to the Animals in Science Committee forced swim test report, published on 5 March 2024, what the deadline is for ending the use of for
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 8 May 2025
The Home Office wrote to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology and the UKRI in February 2024 to consider the recommendation to request further research into non-animal methods to replace the Forced Swim Test (FST).The Home Office Regulator ...