Animal Experiments: Licensing
Commons · Question 49018 · 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, how many active licences there are for the authorised use of the forced swim test.
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 ...