Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what dog species are included in the other dog species category used in her Department's document entitled, Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2019; and for what specific purposes experiments on those dogs were carried out.

With reference to the report entitled Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2019, published in July 2020, the dog species included in the other dog species category are:

• Client owned (where the exact breed is not specified);
• Norfolk Terrier;
• Labrador Retriever; and,
• Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen.

The studies in which they were used were nutrition studies and clinical veterinary studies.