Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain for 2021, published on 4 July 2022, of the 55 horses and other equids used for the first time, how many procedures were conducted on each animal.

The number of procedures carried out in a year does not equal the number of animals that have been used in procedures that year. This is because some animals may be used more than once i.e. ‘re-used’, in certain circumstances. These instances are counted as separate, additional, procedures. As a result, the number of procedures is usually slightly higher than the number of animals used. We do not hold data on how many times an animal has been re-used in procedures.