Question follow-through · 27047
Animal Experiments: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed to (a) process and (b) issue project licences for experiments using animals regulated by the Animal Welfare (Scientific Experiments) Act 1986.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed to (a) process and (b) issue project licences for experiments using animals regulated by the Animal Welfare (Scientific Experiments) Act 1986.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The number of staff that are employed to process and issue project licences in the Home Office Regulator, under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, are published in the Regulator’s annual report accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/colle...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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