Question follow-through · 90180
Animal Experiments: Rodents
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the trends in the numbers of imported mice used for animal testing in 2024.
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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made of the trends in the numbers of imported mice used for animal testing in 2024.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The number of mice born outside the UK and used for the first time in experimental procedures in 2024 was 21,287. While this is an increase of 4.6 per cent from 2023, the overall total number of procedures involving mice fell by 2.3 per cent from 2023 to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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