Question follow-through · 13925
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the levels of the use of dogs at the MBR Acres facility in Cambridgeshire; and whether she plans to take steps to end the breeding and supply of dogs for scientific tes
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the levels of the use of dogs at the MBR Acres facility in Cambridgeshire; and whether she plans to take steps to end the breeding and supply of dogs for scientific tes
1 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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6 Jul 2026
Answer published
Pharmaceutical legislation requires that, before a medicine can be approved for testing in humans, it is tested in a rodent and non-rodent species under international guidelines. This may include dogs as an appropriate model. The number of Beagles bred is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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