Written questions

Animal Experiments: Licensing

Commons · Question 83969 · Tabled 21 Oct 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 31 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Ian Byrne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will end the issuing of licences for experiments involving (a) dogs, (b) cats and (c) non-human primates under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 31 Oct 2025

This Government is committed to the development of non-animal alternatives and will publish a strategy later this year. However, in limited circumstances where there is no non-animal alternative, procedures are required to deliver benefits to people, anim...