Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Option 3 in her Department's consultation on the review of section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 would be effected by a statutory instrument under section 75 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The public consultation on options to review section 24 of the Animals
(Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 closed on 13 June 2014 and we are actively
analysing responses in preparation for pursuing legislative change.

We are already exploring the use of an Order under section 75 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 to amend or repeal section 24 of the Animals (Scientific
Procedures) Act 1986. My intention is that any legislative change that we
decide to make will be in force by May 2015.