Animal Experiments: Cats
(asked on 11th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cats have been used in experiments in Britain in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 18th June 2014
The following table contains information on the number of cats used in procedures undertaken between 2008 and 2012.
| Table 1 Number of cats used in scientific procedures in Great Britain between 2008 and 2012 | ||||||
| Year | Procedures | |||||
| 2008 | 176 | |||||
| 2009 | 172 | |||||
| 2010 | 152 | |||||
| 2011 | 153 | |||||
| 2012 | 202 | |||||
| Source: Home Office | ||||||