Porton Down: Animal Experiments
(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2020 to Question 9721, on Porton Down: Animal Experiments, on which species of animal were scientific procedures conducted in each year from 2009 to 2018; and how many scientific procedures were conducted on each species.
The information requested is shown in the table below.
Number of scientific procedures, by species, for the years 2009 to 2018
Year | Dog | Domestic fowl | Guinea Pig | Hamster | Macaque (primate) | Marmoset (primate) | Mouse | Pig | Rabbit | Rat | Total |
2009 | 0 | 0 | 190 | 0 | 22 | 127 | 7,982 | 96 | 30 | 5 | 8,452 |
2010 | 0 | 0 | 308 | 30 | 47 | 197 | 8,553 | 140 | 50 | 113 | 9,438 |
2011 | 0 | 0 | 652 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 8,801 | 88 | 76 | 37 | 9,722 |
2012 | 3 | 6 | 281 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 8,205 | 75 | 16 | 130 | 8,830 |
2013 | 0 | 0 | 447 | 0 | 0 | 193 | 5,641 | 108 | 4 | 68 | 6,461 |
2014 | 0 | 0 | 323 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 3,411 | 100 | 0 | 223 | 4,124 |
2015 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 2,894 | 58 | 0 | 124 | 3,249 |
2016 | 0 | 0 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 2,167 | 27 | 0 | 199 | 2,747 |
2017 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 3,400 | 52 | 0 | 240 | 3,905 |
2018 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 1,738 | 67 | 0 | 56 | 1,941 |