Question follow-through · 43409

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33380 on Animal Experiments, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the concordance range; whether she has made an assessment of the potenti

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33380 on Animal Experiments, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the concordance range; whether she has made an assessment of the potenti

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The paper in question is published in a reputable scientific journal and will have undergone rigorous peer review before publication.The Government invests £10m annually in The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Re...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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