Question follow-through · 74237
Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of routinely (a) recording and (b) reporting the number of animals bred for and not used in scientific research.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of routinely (a) recording and (b) reporting the number of animals bred for and not used in scientific research.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is presently reviewing the potential merits of recording and reporting the number of animals that were bred for and not used in scientific procedures.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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