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Animal Procedure Committee

In accordance with Section 20(5) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, I have placed the Committee's annual report for 2005 in the Library today. Among other things the report includes; the advice offered by the Committee on project licence applications that were referred to the Committee for advice; the work carried out by the Committee's sub-committees; the completion of the Committee's review, commissioned by the Home Office, of the annual statistical report on the use of animals in scientific procedures; and the Committee's work on the retrospective assessment of suffering and severity.