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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Recorded timeline
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 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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