Question follow-through · 4648
Animal Experiments: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enhancing the regulatory oversight of the harm-benefit analysis process for service licences issued by the Animals in Science Regulat
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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, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enhancing the regulatory oversight of the harm-benefit analysis process for service licences issued by the Animals in Science Regulat
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jun 2026
Answer published
All project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, including those for regulatory testing are assessed on a case-by-case basis by trained Home Office Inspectors. Licences are granted only where the likely harms to animals...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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