Home Department written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of recommendation 14 of the Review of research using non-human primates chaired by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS; when she proposes that new advice will be given to research workers on the destruction of records; and how such advice would be communicated.
Recommendation 14 of the Review of research using non-human primates chaired by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS stated that the Home Office should reconsider their advice to research workers to destroy records after five years.
The recommendation appears to be based on a misunderstanding as the Home Office does not give any such advice. For the avoidance of doubt, we require researchers and establishments to keep records for at least five years; when those records are destroyed after that is a matter for decision locally.
This has been communicated to researchers in a certificate holders circular and an e-newsletter.
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