Question follow-through · 14428
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animals are held by Government (a) Departments and (b) agencies for research; and what type of animals are held.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animals are held by Government (a) Departments and (b) agencies for research; and what type of animals are held.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2023 was published on the 11 September 2024.The statistics provide full details on the number of licensed procedures carried out, the species of animals and the purposes for w...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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