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1717854

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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

1280210

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
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, how many (a) animals and (b) species of animals were used for the production of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in research and testing under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in (i) 2018 and (ii) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	142825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>With reference to the reports entitled Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 and 2019, published in October 2019 and July 2020 respectively, data on the use of animals in the production of antibodies, whether monoclonal or polyclonal, is collected from establishments. However, the use of animals for antibody production falls within a range of purposes in the published data. Therefore, it is not possible to extract from the data (a) the number or (b) species of animals used for the production of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in research and testing in 2018 or 2019.</p><p>All applications that include animals used for the production of monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies are subject to a harm-benefit analysis, undertaken by the Home Office Inspectorate, to ensure any harm which may be caused to the animals is justified by the expected benefits for humans, animals or the environment. The rigorous regulatory system in GB requires that no production of antibodies takes place if there is a validated non-animal alternative that would achieve the scientific outcomes sought. Project licence proposals for research on animals for which there is no non-animal alternative for the production of monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies must comply fully with the principles of the 3Rs: replacement, reduction and refinement.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/01/2021 17:40:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1182684

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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, what steps the Animals in Science Regulation Unit is taking to encourage the replacement of the use of animals in scientific procedures.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	25032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>The steps that the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) takes to encourage the replacement of the use of animals in scientific procedures are part of a wider strategy on the rigorous application of the 3Rs principles – replacement, reduction and refinement.</p><p>Procedures on animals are only authorised after an assessment process, which is undertaken by the Home Office Inspectorate. All project licence applicants are required to describe and justify why available non-animal alternative methodologies could not be used to achieve their scientific objectives.</p><p>In 2018 ASRU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs) to support the uptake of 3Rs approaches. The NC3Rs leads the discovery and application of new technologies and approaches to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in scientific procedures. ASRU supports the NC3Rs drive to accelerate the development and use of models and tools, based on the latest science and technologies, to address important scientific questions without the use of animals.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/03/2020 17:36:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1140410

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that there is no duplication of animal testing for chemical registrations in the event that the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	278930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>We are determined that there should be no need for any additional animal testing for a chemical that has already been registered to EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. In such a scenario, the UK system that we will put in place (UK REACH) will retain the ‘last resort principle’ – that companies can only use animal testing as a last resort.</p><p> </p><p>We have also ensured that under UK REACH the information requirements would be the same as under EU REACH. Businesses will therefore be able to confirm their registrations by submitting the same technical information that was required by EU REACH.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/07/2019 15:42:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy