Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department has allocated to the National Centre for the 3Rs in the present financial year.

The Home Office has allocated £250,000 funding for the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) in the present financial year.

The UK has one of the most comprehensive animal welfare systems in the world to ensure animal testing is carried out humanely and only when necessary. The Government has a continuing commitment to safeguard animal welfare and advance the use of the 3Rs principles (replacement, refinement and reduction) in research and development. The UK remains at the forefront of global work to
develop alternatives to animal testing.