Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to ban the testing of household products on animals.
We have made a commitment to ban the testing of household products on animals.
Although superficially straightforward, the details are not been easy to
resolve. Any solution has to be legally viable since we cannot ban testing
which may be required under UK or EU law.
The key issue is around ingredients. I am looking to develop a solution that is
workable, but does not have a chain of unforeseen circumstances. It is my
intention to implement a ban before the next general election in May 2015.