Animal Experiments

(asked on 11th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to separate the number of procedures for the (a) LD50 (lethal dose 50%) and (b) LC50 (lethal concentration 50%) tests in the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals.


Answered by
Dan Jarvis Portrait
Dan Jarvis
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 17th July 2025

The Home Office publishes extensive data on the use of animals in science in the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals.

There are no plans to disaggregate the number of procedures specifically relating to the LD50 and LC50 tests within these statistics.

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