Question follow-through · 59099

Animal Experiments: Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the frequency of the publication of statistics on the number of animals that are bred for use in scientific procedures but not used.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
16 Jun 2025
Answer
16 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the frequency of the publication of statistics on the number of animals that are bred for use in scientific procedures but not used.

  2. 16 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office is presently reviewing the collection and publication of additional statistics on animals that were bred but not used in scientific procedures.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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