Home Department written question – answered at on 27 June 2011.
Adrian Sanders
Liberal Democrat, Torbay
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) if she will assess the potential effects on Government policy on the use of animals in scientific experiments of the planned expansion of the Marshall Biosciences beagle breeding facility in East Yorkshire;
(2) if she will estimate the maximum annual number of beagles to be bred for experimental purposes if the proposed expansion of the Marshall Biosciences beagle breeding facility in East Yorkshire were given a certificate of designation.
Lynne Featherstone
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Under section 7 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, places where animals specified in schedule 2 to the Act are bred for use in regulated procedures, or are kept for supply for use in such procedures or to other designated sources, must be designated as breeding and/or supplying establishments. Applications for designation are considered on a case by case basis according to their merits. It is not Home Office policy to comment on individual applications.
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