§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many animals were being used in the UK for scientific experiments on 1 March. [113833]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienRecords are not held in such a way as to identify the overall number of animals used in procedures on any one day.
The Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals (Great Britain 1998) provides a great deal of information on the numbers of animals used including the total number of animals per species used each year. Figures for 1999 are in the process of being collated and are due to be published in the summer.