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Animal Experiments: Shellfish

Commons · Question 5059 · Tabled 10 Sep 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of the Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023; and what recent estimate she has made of when the Animals in Science Committee will report on options for

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 17 Sep 2024

Following earlier research and reports on this issue, the next step is for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to decide whether to regulate Decapods under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.Any decision of publication of earl...