Animal Experiments: Licensing
Commons · Question 31699 · Tabled 13 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were returned to the applicant with a request for additional information to address (a) errors and (b
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 27 Feb 2025
The Regulator reports that project licence applications for the last four years had a mean number of 2.55 iterations before granting. The Regulator does not collect data on the number of applications withdrawn, but reports that such occurrences are rare.T...