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Animal Experiments: Licensing

Commons · Question 31699 · Tabled 13 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 27 Feb 2025

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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 The Regulator does not collect data on the number of applications withdrawn, but reports that such occurrences are rare.T...