To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the ministerial letter of 31 January 2006 responding to the recommendations within the Animal Procedures Committee’s (APC) 2005 report on the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals; what response she has made to the APC’s Recommendation 9 on enhancements to the types of information recorded within the statistics. (188561)

We will provide a further response to recommendation 9 of the Animal Procedures Committee’s 2005 report on the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals when the European Commission publishes revised statistical reporting requirements as part of the current review of Directive 86/609/EEC, which the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 transposes into UK law.