Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the strategy Replacing animals in science, published on 11 November 2025, whether they plan to establish a national platform to catalogue and share non-animal methods and expertise used in research and regulatory testing.

The UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) Gateway on F1000Research is an established platform to accelerate the dissemination of detailed non-animal methodologies, data notes, and software tools to improve animal welfare and reduce animal use in science. In the ‘Replacing animals in science’ strategy published in November 2025 we commit to increasing the scope of the gateway so that by the end of 2026 it is available to all researchers developing alternative methods.