Question follow-through · 31698

Animal Experiments: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were rejected in each of the last four years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 24 Feb 2025
Answer: 27 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were rejected in each of the last four years.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2025, one application for a project licence under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 was refused.The Government publishes extensive guidance for the regulated sector on applying for project licences. Applicat...

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