Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, how much of the funding announced alongside the Replacing Animals in Science strategy has been (a) allocated and (b) spent to date.

The Replacing Animals in Science Strategy was supported by £75 million to accelerate the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods. Funding allocated to date includes £30 million for the Medical Research Council-funded Preclinical Translational Models Hub, up to £2 million through Innovate UK to support human-relevant approaches to medicines testing (£316,268 spent to date), and £15.8 million for novel human in vitro disease models (£3.7 million spent to date across five projects). The Government is also in the process of allocating funding to establish the UK Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods.