Porton Down: Animal Experiments

(asked on 9th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2021 to Question 6340, on Porton Down: Animal Experiments, on which species of animal were scientific procedures conducted in 2019 and 2020; and how many scientific procedures were conducted on each species.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 17th June 2021

The numbers of scientific procedures conducted pursuant to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, by species for 2019 and 2020, are set out in the table below:-

Common name

Species name

2019

2020

Mice

Mus musculus

1,328

1,014

Pig

Sus scrofa domestica

49

47

Marmoset

Callithrix jacchus

58

55

Rat

Rattus norvegicus

56

16

Guinea Pig

Cavia porcellus

0

32

Hamster (Syrian)

Mesocricetus auratus

9

30

Total Procedures

1,500

1,194

Reticulating Splines