Feb. 08 2024
Source Page: Environmental assessment and evidence: king scallop fisheries management plan (FMP)Found: Review current technical measures and overarching policies (for example, licensing) which impact the
Oral Evidence Feb. 07 2024
Committee: Science, Innovation and Technology CommitteeFound: Sheldrake: I have just been working with an architectural firm called PRP Architecture doing a range of experiments
Found: Debate on e-petitions relating to animal testing and non-animal research methods
Jan. 30 2024
Source Page: Communications regarding James Hutton Institute in relation to the Evidence Review: EIR releaseFound: not exceed 20% at the end of the test; • the mean number of living offspring produced per parent animal
Jan. 22 2024
Source Page: Buchan Redevelopment ProjectFound: The MMO will carry out a pre- piling survey of a 500 m mitigation zone and, if an animal is detected
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
Written Evidence Jan. 10 2024
Inquiry: Insect decline and UK food securityFound: Indeed, at this time domestic UK output of vegetable and animal oils is at an all time high (see Figure
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department takes to ensure that an equivalent test is not available without the use of animals before issuing a licence for animal experimentation.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
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, and only when all aspects of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 have been fulfilled.
Licence applicants are required to robustly evidence their consideration of alternative methods. The Regulator reviews all licence applications and will only issue a licence once it is satisfied there are no practicable alternative methods.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will recall all licences for companies to carry out animal testing.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
This Government recognises that scientific research using animals plays a vital part in our understanding of how biological systems work in health and disease. The use of animals in science supports the development of new medicines and cutting-edge medical technologies, for humans and animals, as well as supporting the safety and sustainability of our environment.
The Government is also clear that animals must be protected. The legal framework in the UK requires that animals are only ever used in science where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.
The Government has no plans to ban all animal testing but is committed to fully implementing the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement), and promoting non-animal alternatives wherever possible.
Nov. 28 2023
Source Page: Valproate: review of safety data and expert advice on management of risksFound: all patients were monitored for thera peutic efficacy and safety, and the results reported to the licensing