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 his Department provided for (a) research involving animals and (b) the development of non-animal experimentation methods in each of the last four years; and what the proportion of funding was for research involving animals in that same period for each disease area targeted by the funding.

The information requested is not held centrally and is currently being researched. I will write to the Hon. Member as soon as the information is available and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Libraries of the House.