Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to increase the transparency of licensing applications for the performing of scientific procedures on living animals.

The Government publishes extensive information about the use of animals in science in Great Britain, including: guidance on the operation of ASPA (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-on-the-operation-of-the-animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986); and national annual statistics on the use of animals in scientific procedures (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-statistics).

For each project licence granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (ASPA) 1986 a Non-Technical Summary is published, available here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#non-technical-summaries.