Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) animals in these experiments. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) , Food and Rural Affairs but the Home Office is in charge of licensing. - Speech Link
3: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) research with a long-term ambition of zero animal experiments. - Speech Link
Found: Debate on e-petitions relating to animal testing and non-animal research methods
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: Non-technical summaries granted in 2024Found: In order to use these drugs in this project we have obtained all appropriate licensing and permission
Feb. 20 2024
Source Page: ASC and AWERB Hub workshop report: October 2023Found: Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act Article 5A, 1 and 2 : An application for a licence must be accompanied
Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) , and 70% would like to see all animal experiments phased out by 2040. - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Also, the UK is the top user of primates and dogs in experiments in Europe; thousands of experiments - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) refine the use of animals in research and to ensure that the UK has a robust regulatory system for licensing - Speech Link
Dec. 13 2007
Source Page: Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate annual report 2006. 38 p.Found: Inspectors also assess, as necessary, propose d experiments on protect ed animals which do not appear
Mentions:
1: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) African swine fever in pigs is a good animal example—perhaps a known unknown. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) research phase is now in its fifth year, which will give way to the landscape trials phase and then a licensing - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) labs around the world that are researching these lethal pathogens and, more importantly, ensuring that experiments - Speech Link
Report Nov. 20 2023
Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands CommitteeFound: Once an animal is captured, the intention is that the glue trap can be retrieved and the animal dispatched
Asked by: Baroness Redfern (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to review the standard duration of licences for animal research, and (2) to introduce more challenge into the system for granting such licences, given the pace of technological change in the sector.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Home Office is going to conduct an internal review in relation to the duration of project licences for animal research under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA), as announced in the parliamentary debate on 19 February 2024.
The use of animals in scientific procedures is only authorised by the Home Office Regulator where there is clear scientific benefit, to people, animals, or the environment. The regulatory framework has a rigorous approach to the application of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) in all applications for programmes of work involving animals. Establishments conducting research must have robust internal governance systems and processes that ensure the regulated activities carried out at the establishment are undertaken in accordance with the principles of the 3Rs. Our application of the 3Rs principles continuously evolves with scientific developments.
Asked by: Baroness Redfern (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have (1) to increase the fees for licences to use animals in scientific research, and (2) to seek to reduce the use of animals in such research.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Government has laid a Statutory Instrument in parliament to increase the fees payable for licences under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) to come into effect on 6th April 2024.
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) and develop non-animal alternatives. The Government will also 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 is committed to opportunities for reducing the use of animals in scientific research. Specifically, this Government has recently accepted the recommendations of the independent Animals in Science Committee to further restrict the use of the forced swim test and apply enhanced scrutiny to any proposal to use it in research. However, we intend to go further and have set an aim to completely eliminate its use, thus driving the development and validation of suitable alternatives (see: www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-on-the-use-of-the-forced-swim-test-letter-from-lord-sharpe/letter-from-lord-sharpe-of-epsom-responding-to-the-asc-forced-swim-test-report-accessible).