Question follow-through · 87138
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2024; published on 23 October 2025, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the (a) numbe
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2024; published on 23 October 2025, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the (a) numbe
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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11 Nov 2025
Answer published
In 2024, there were 2.64 million regulated scientific procedures carried out in Great Britain involving living animals. This is a decrease of 1% on the previous year, and the lowest number since 2001.The trends in the number of animals and types of proced...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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