Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the Government has allocated to research and development; and how much and what proportion of that funding was dedicated to animal-free science in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Overall Government spending on R&D in 2021/22 is £14.9 billion, its highest level in four decades.

The Office for National Statistics publishes historical figures on research and development expenditure by the UK Government on their website.

We are not able to provide figures on the proportion of R&D funding dedicated to developing animal-free science as funding is not categorised in this way.