Question follow-through · 19713

Animal Experiments: Primates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals: Great Britain 2025, updated on 9 July 2026, for what reason harms arising from transp

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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 her Department's document entitled Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals: Great Britain 2025, updated on 9 July 2026, for what reason harms arising from transp

  2. 2 Sept 2026

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  3. 10 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    Under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, severity assessments measure harms to an animal during a regulated procedure and reflect the highest severity experienced during that procedure, including any cumulative procedural effects. Harms arising...

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