Question follow-through · 4647
Animal Experiments: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason service licences issued by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit do not require information on the exact substance that is being tested in the tests they authorise.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason service licences issued by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit do not require information on the exact substance that is being tested in the tests they authorise.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2026
Answer published
Under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA), project licences for regulatory testing may authorise a defined programme of standardised studies where the scientific purpose and regulatory question are clear even if the individual substance to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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