Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain in 2023, published by her Department on 11 September 2024, what the project aims were for the 21 procedures for the creation and breeding of genetically altered animals; what the nature of the harmful phenotype was; and if she will take steps to end the use of procedures that involve the genetic alteration of dogs.

Research to develop a treatment for improving the length and quality of life for patients with muscular dystrophy utilises a dog model which has a harmful phenotype.