Question follow-through · 56017
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) record and (b) report on the number of animals in the UK who are bred for science and not used in scientific procedures.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) record and (b) report on the number of animals in the UK who are bred for science and not used in scientific procedures.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is presently reviewing the collection and publication of additional statistics on animals that were bred for, but not used in, scientific procedures.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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