Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled, Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2019, what regulatory procedures were carried out on animals to satisfy the requirements of non-EU legislation in 2018-2019; and what (a) legislation and (b) jurisdictions those procedures were conducted to satisfy.

With reference to the report entitled Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2019, published in July 2020, the return of statistics on procedures requires details of the legislative requirement the procedures are to satisfy. The legislation requirements include: medicinal products for human use; industrial chemicals; plant protection; medical products for veterinary use and their residues. Information on the legislative jurisdictions for which the procedures are conducted to satisfy is not collected.