Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the £1 billion a year granted by the National Institute for Health Research for research is spent solely on non-animal methodologies.

The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR’s funding is focused on translational, clinical and applied health and care research and work involving animals or animal testing is not within the NIHR’s remit.