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1341704

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with respect to Section 18, 2(b) of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, how many and what proportion of inspection visits carried out by officials of her Department to establishments designated as breeding, supplying or using animals during (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 were without notice; and whether she has plans to increase those type of inspection visits.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	24154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>Inspections are conducted by the Home Office in accordance with the requirements of ASPA and according to risk. In 2017, 59% of inspection visits were unannounced, 2018 63% and 2019 36%. Full details are published in the Regulator’s annual reports available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit-annual-reports" target="_blank">Animals in Science Regulation Unit annual reports - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Home Office inspects establishments at a frequency that is compliant with the requirements of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (1986). Both announced and unannounced inspections are undertaken, depending on the regulatory outcomes required. No plans have been made to change the frequency of unannounced visits.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/07/2021 16:34:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1341705

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest interval was between visits made by officials of her Department to any establishment designated as breeding, supplying or using animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	24155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office Regulator inspects all establishments at a frequency that is fully compliant with the requirements of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (1986). The Regulator aims to inspect all establishments at least once a year. The Regulator also undertakes a governance review of each establishment on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/07/2021 16:34:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1655926

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Defibrillators: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has considered the potential merits of removing VAT from all defibrillators sold in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	196009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government maintains VAT reliefs to aid the purchase of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), including VAT relief on purchases made by local authorities and those made through voluntary contributions, where the AED is donated to eligible charities or the NHS. Otherwise, they attract the standard rate of VAT.</p><p>The Government is currently inviting community organisations to bid for funding as part of a £1 million grant scheme that expands public access to AEDs, particularly in public places where they are most needed. In addition, in June 2023, the Government met its commitment to ensure that all state-funded schools in England have access to a life-saving defibrillator.</p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/09/2023 13:40:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1343718

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Primates: Animal Experiments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans for her Department's policy to only allow non-human primates who are the offspring of those bred in captivity or who are sourced from self-sustaining colonies that do not trap monkeys in the wild to be used in scientific research in line with the EU policy due to be implemented in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	27126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The requirement of EU Directive 2010/63/EU that non-human primates cannot be sourced from the wild for breeding within a self-sustaining colony is already implemented for Marmosets, as stated in the UK legislation.</p><p>The UK legislation presently requires that all non-human primates used in research are bred specifically for research, so wild caught animals cannot not be used for procedures.</p><p>Establishments that have a licence to breed other primate species must have a strategy in place to increase the proportion of primates bred from primates bred in captivity.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/07/2021 16:36:35 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith