Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of recording the number of animals used in covid-19 research in the Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain for 2021.

The number of animals used in experiments relating to the Covid-19 outbreak will be reported in the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain for 2021.

Data will not be collected that identifies the number of animals used in procedures specifically related to Covid-19 research. The use of animals for Covid-19 research falls within a range of purposes in the published data and may be recorded under the categories of basic research, translational research or regulatory research.