FOI2024/01001: Animal Use at MRC Harwell Biological Services & Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Case reference FOI2024/01001
Received 28 October 2024
Published 7 January 2025
Request
Request Received: 22 November 2024
For the years 2022 and 2023, re Animal Use under ASPA 1986 under the Establishment Licence for MRC Harwell Biological Services and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
1) May I have the number of scientific procedures undertaken and split between species during each year.
2) For each year could you please provide a numerical breakdown of the severity classification for procedures carried out. Please split between sub threshold, mild, moderate, severe and non recovery. These will be the figures provided by project licence holders in the annual returns to the Home Office.
3) Please can you tell me the number and species of animals, that were killed without being used for regulated procedures? This is for years 2022 and 2023, since leaving the EU these are not required to be included on the annual returns so if you do not have these then please I can I have the figure for the last year it was legally required i.e. 2017 as below.
To be clear these would be the figures last published in 2017 re Additional statistics on breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures, Great Britain 2017, under EU Directive (2010/63/EU). https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/additional-statistics-on-breeding-and-genotyping-of-animals-for-scientific-procedures-great-britain-2017
4) Were any animals rehomed in 2022 or 2023? If so, please may I have their number and species.
5) Do you annually reconcile the statistics each project licence holder compiles for the annual returns to the data the Establishment separately collects?
6) Can you please tell me for each year how many project licences the Animal Welfare Ethical Review Body (AWERB) for your Establishment reviewed and decided to prevent them continuing for Home Office approval, this may be because for instance they identified a New Approach Methodology that could be used instead of animals.
If any of this data is already published on your website, please can you direct me to the URL.
Response
Response Sent: 22 November 2024
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