Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of new technologies on the use of animals in medical research.

The Government is committed to the development of alternatives to using animals in science and will publish a strategy to support their adoption later this year.

We support new technologies and approaches that replace animal use in research including organ-on-a-chip, functional genomics and computer modelling.

The impact of individual technical advancements are a matter for individual regulators to consider.

The Government strategy will facilitate the inclusion and adoption of alternative methods in these regulatory contexts.