Question follow-through · 24248
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider introducing temperature regulations for the housing of animals in (a) testing and (b) vivisection breeding facilities, including the establishment of maximum and minimum temperatu
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider introducing temperature regulations for the housing of animals in (a) testing and (b) vivisection breeding facilities, including the establishment of maximum and minimum temperatu
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government does not currently plan to introduce statutory maximum and minimum temperature ranges for each species housed in establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. The statutory Code of Practice requires establishme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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