Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of non-technical summaries of research projects involving animal testing.

Guidance on completing the non-technical summary, in accordance with the legislation, is published at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/animal-research-technical-advice#guidance-notes-for-project-licence-applications. The non-technical summaries provided by project licence applicants are assessed by Inspectors in the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) against the published guidance before issuing a granted licence.

ASRU has no plans to introduce a non-technical summaries database. All non-technical summaries are made available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#non-technical-summaries. The Home Office seeks to continually improve their standard and publication accessibility through stakeholder engagement.