Animal Procedures Committee Annual Report

(Limited Text - Ministerial Extracts only)

Tuesday 12th October 2010 Written Statements

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Lynne Featherstone)]

In accordance with section 20(5) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the Committee’s annual report for 2009 has today been laid before the House. Copies are available in the Vote Office. The report includes details of:

A Committee report and Minister’s response on appropriate methods of humane killing for fish.

A Committee report and Minister’s response to the strengths and weaknesses of the current system of severity limits as a way of prospectively assessing suffering and severity.

Committee correspondence on progress with the revision of Directive 86/609.

The Committees programme of work for 2010 onwards.