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, if she will make a statement on her Department's response to the APC's recommendation 4. (190050)

We will shortly be reviewing our response to all of the recommendations in this Animal Procedures Committee report, including recommendation 4, and will aim to publish our further conclusions when we publish the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals 2007.