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Animal Procedures Committee: Annual Report

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities and Criminal Information (Lynne Featherstone) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement. In accordance with Section 20(5) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the committee’s annual report for 2009 has today been laid before the House. Copies are available in the Vote Office. The report includes details of: a committee report and Minister’s response on appropriate methods of humane killing for fish; a committee report and Minister’s response to the strengths and weaknesses of the current system of severity limits as a way of prospectively assessing suffering and severity; committee correspondence on progress with the revision of directive 86/609; and the committee’s programme of work for 2010 onwards.