Written Question·Home Office·UIN 86518
Animal Experiments
Tabled: 29 October 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025
Named DayQuestion
Michael Wheeler
Labour — Worsley and Eccles
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s publication entitled Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2024, published on 23 October 2025, what assessment she has made of
Answer
Dan JarvisThe Lethal Dose 50 and Lethal Concentration 50 procedures are subject to strict regulations under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. This legal framework requires that animals are only ever used in science where there are no alternatives, where...
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