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Animal Experiments: Licensing

Asked by Ruth JonesLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 2 March 2026UIN 113973

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Department's transparency data entitled Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986: Non-technical summaries for project licences granted October – December 2025 that require a retrospective assessment, updated on 5 February 2026, what steps she is taking to ensure that projects are not duplicated in the report.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The Animals in Science Regulation Unit operates a quality checking process to minimise errors in published non-technical summaries (NTS). However, they acknowledge there was a duplication error in the February 2026 NTS publication.

The Animals in Science Regulation Unit have corrected a version of the document which will be published shortly. For clarity, all NTS’ were published, the error detected was a duplication.

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