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1718426

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit annual report 2022, published on 25 April 2024, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) help increase compliance with (i) legislation and (ii) licence conditions with respect to the provision of care for animals and (b) support the replacement of animal (A) research and (B) testing with (1) organ-on-a-chip, (2) computer modelling and (3) other human-specific technologies.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	26402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) has embarked on an ambitious agenda of regulatory reform. The ASRU Regulatory Reform Programme aims to deliver leading regulatory practice, improving how ASRU meets best practice regulatory standards, and enhancing ASRU’s ability to protect animals in scientific testing and research. As part of reforms ASRU will be reviewing and strengthening its licensing and audit processes, with a focus on improving compliance with the legislation and providing a quality service to the science sector.</p><p>This Government has committed to soon publish a plan to accelerate the development, validation and uptake of technologies and methods to reduce reliance on the use of animals in science. The Government recently announced that it will double investment, from £10m to £20m per annum, in research to achieve the three Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement) with a focus on the development of non-animal alternatives.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 22/05/2024 12:08:20 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1717854

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to strengthen sanctions for those who breach conditions of a licence to conduct animal experiments for scientific research.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	26091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office takes non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 very seriously.</p><p>The Animals in Science Regulation Unit applies sanctions in cases of non-compliance in accordance with its compliance policy, which aims to reduce the risk of future non-compliance.</p><p>More rigorous sanctions are used in cases where animal welfare is impacted or there are significant systems failures.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 21/05/2024 15:56:17 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1715378

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit annual report 2022, published on 25 April 2024, if he will make it his policy to initiate an investigation into the reasons for the rise in non-compliance cases since 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
uin	24595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office takes non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 very seriously. The reasons for the increase in the number of non-compliance cases in 2022 include the introduction of a risk-based audit programme and the drive to improve governance within establishments, including self-reporting.</p><p>The Animals in Science Regulation Unit will further evaluate trends in non-compliance as its regulatory reform programme develops. Every case is investigated, and remedies and sanctions applied, using more rigorous sanctions in cases where animal welfare is impacted or there are significant systems failures.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 13/05/2024 15:38:37 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford

1680515

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has taken recent steps to end the use of the false swim test.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	8500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office welcomes the recent advice from the Government’s independent advisory body, the Animals in Science Committee, on the use of the forced swim test. The report and its recommendations are being carefully considered, and the Home Office will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/01/2024 13:47:51 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1679772

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will undertake a review of all animal procedures to (a) identify and (b) remove (i) redundant, (ii) duplicate and (iii) wasteful methods of animal testing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	8226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office Regulator reviews every project licence application to use animals in scientific procedures. A licence will only be granted when the Regulator is satisfied that there are no practicable alternatives, that the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and that any harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.</p><p>The National Centre for the 3Rs, which receives core funding from UK Research and Innovation, supports these aims by working to accelerate the replacement, reduction and refinement of the use of animals in research.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 16/01/2024 12:34:04 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson

1656572

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's consultation on Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which closed on 13 June 2014, for what reason her Department did not publish a response to the consultation; and if she will make it her policy to publish a response in the next six months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	197076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government intends to bring forward proposals and engage with stakeholders this year on transparency of information and the protection of confidential information regarding the regulation of the use of animals in science.</p><p>In doing so the Government intends to clarify section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, taking account of the previous consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 07/09/2023 10:19:06 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1654211

registered interest
date	19/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to accept the recommendation on the use of forced swim tests in studies on anxiety and depression in the report by the Animals in Science Committee entitled Advice on the use of the forced swim test, published on 5 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	195092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office welcomes the Animals in Science Committee’s advice on the use of the forced swim test. The report and its recommendations are being carefully considered, and the Home Office will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 05/09/2023 15:19:17 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1653023

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of non-technical summaries of research projects involving animal testing.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayman of Ullock
uin	HL9324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>Guidance on completing the non-technical summary, in accordance with the legislation, is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/animal-research-technical-advice#guidance-notes-for-project-licence-applications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/animal-research-technical-advice#guidance-notes-for-project-licence-applications</a>. The non-technical summaries provided by project licence applicants are assessed by Inspectors in the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) against the published guidance before issuing a granted licence.</p><p>ASRU has no plans to introduce a non-technical summaries database. All non-technical summaries are made available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#non-technical-summaries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#non-technical-summaries</a>. The Home Office seeks to continually improve their standard and publication accessibility through stakeholder engagement.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL9325 question first answered 24/07/2023 14:21:50 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

1628688

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to Written Answer by Lord Markham on 28 March (HL6448), how many animals, and of what type, are currently used in licensed laboratories for pyrogen testing.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL7898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes annual statistics on the use of animals in scientific procedures. The statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-statistics</a></p><p>The most recent statistics for 2021 show that no procedures have been carried on animals for quality control pyrogenicity testing for regulatory use since 2019 (data table 7.1).</p><p>Pyrogen testing could be recorded under other categories in the statistics. However, the statistics do not break down the data by test type for non-regulatory or other regulatory purposes.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 05/06/2023 16:16:53 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name annual-statistics-scientific-procedures-living-animals-2021_161122_v5.pdf title Annual statistics 2021
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1627839

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to reintroduce the ban on animal experimentation.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	185037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>Animal testing of cosmetics for consumer safety has been banned in the UK since 1998 and this remains in force.</p><p>On 17 May 2023 the Government announced it is going further by banning, with immediate effect, licences to test ingredients exclusively used in the production of cosmetics for the purposes of worker safety.</p><p>The Home Secretary has issued a Written Ministerial Statement, which can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-statements%2Fdetail%2F2023-05-17%2Fhcws779&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBernadette.Godson%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce4c16b1bccc04faa68d108db56e8044f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638199326714611732%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Rj2%2BGQUTpHRZjJGJjQ48JogLP12Kyc2Sxlbito7MjQI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-05-17/hcws779</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 22/05/2023 16:54:03 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West