Written Question·Home Office·UIN 18000
Animal Breeding: Animal Experiments
Tabled: 13 July 2026
Answered: 20 July 2026
Question
Sarah Champion
Labour — Rotherham
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 reduction in procedures reported as
Answer
Sarah JonesThe Government welcomes the reduction in experimental procedures reported as severe in the 2025 published annual statistics. The proportion fell from 3.4% in 2024 to 1.3% in 2025, with the number of severe procedures decreasing from 48,380 to 17,593. Proc...
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