Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications for personal licences, project licences and establishment licences to carry out scientific research on animals have been (a) approved and (b) rejected in each year since 2010.

The Home Office does not keep records of licence applications that have been rejected or withdrawn at either the concept or the drafting stage.

The numbers of personal, project and establishment licences granted by the Home Office for scientific research on animals are made public every year in the Annual Report of the licensing body, the Animals In Science Regulation Unit. The Annual Reports can be obtained online at:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/research-and-testing-using-animals#publications

The table below sets out the figures for each year since 2010. Figures for 2015 will be published in due course.