Animal Experiments: Dogs

(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dogs were used in licensed animal experiments in the UK in each year between 2010 and 2016; and what assessment he has made of trends in the number of such dogs (a) over and (b) between those years.


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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 12th June 2018

The Home Office has published the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain. The published figures for the numbers of dogs used in scientific procedures between 2010 to 2016 can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals.

No assessment of trends has been made.

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