Animal Experiments: Licensing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2026 to Question 4646, what assessment her Department has made for the implications for her policies of page 14 of the The Animals in Science Committee’s Non-Human Primates Used in Service License publication of October 2024 on her policies.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Government has considered the implications of the Animals in Science Committee’s advice, including the findings on page 14 of its October 2024 report on non-human primates used in service licences. The Minister for the Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) has formally responded to the Committee, and that response is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-human-primates-used-in-service-licences-response-from-lord-hanson.
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