Question follow-through · 127114

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animal research and testing non-technical summaries granted in 2025, October to December, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the number experiment

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 14 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 16 Apr 2026
Answer: 22 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animal research and testing non-technical summaries granted in 2025, October to December, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the number experiment
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2026
Answer published
There is no impact from the number of experiments on (a) beagles (b) non-human primates and (c) rabbits on progress towards the Government’s alternatives strategy. This is because licences for the use of animals in scientific procedures may only be grante...

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