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 the Replacing animals in science strategy on economic growth.

The Government has published a strategy to support alternatives to the use of animals in science, which considered economic impacts.

Building on the UK’s strengths as home to world leading research and pharmaceutical businesses, the strategy will support the UK to capitalise on the global non-animal technologies market, estimated to be worth $29.4 billion by 2030

The strategy has also considered the scientific and economic advantages of human-relevant methods for product development and testing.