Question follow-through · 87246

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's report entitled Scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2024, published on 23 October 2025, what assessment she has made of (a) the number of animals

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 5 Nov 2025
Answer: 12 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's report entitled Scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2024, published on 23 October 2025, what assessment she has made of (a) the number of animals
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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12 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...

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