Question follow-through · 19608

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what assessment she has made of the use of 11,213 mice in procedures rep

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
10 Sept 2026 · 56 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 16 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what assessment she has made of the use of 11,213 mice in procedures rep

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    All procedures using protected animals, including the LD50 and LC50 tests, are subject to strict regulation under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). No project licence can be granted unless a Home Office inspector has completed a harm-be...

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