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Conflict of interest declaration form: ASPA 1986

Conflict of interest declaration form for named persons under ASPA 1986.
ASRU complaints procedure

The Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) is committed to providing a high-quality service to its regulated community.
Procedures on living animals: annual return for the 2013 statistics

Annual return for the 2013 statistics and guidance notes.
Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 2

Volume 2 of the non-technical summaries granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2013.
Non-technical summaries granted during 2013: volume 3

Volume 3 of the non-technical summaries granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2013.

Cross-government alternatives strategy: letter to Lord Vallance
- 11 July 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Correspondence
Timescales for ASC commissions: letter to Lord Hanson
- 11 July 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Correspondence
Animals in Science Committee: new chair appointed
- 10 April 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- News story
ASRU operational newsletter, April 2025
- 9 April 2025
- Home Office
- Correspondence
Commission on AWERBs and Named Information Officer
- 12 February 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Correspondence

Advice on non-human primates used in service licences
- 24 October 2024
- Animals in Science Committee
- Research
The future of futures: participatory futures research in the ASC
- 9 April 2024
- Animals in Science Committee
- Research
Advice on the use of the forced swim test
- 5 July 2023
- Animals in Science Committee
- Research
ACRE advice: the regulation of genetic technologies
- 29 September 2021
- Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
- Research
Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2020
- 15 July 2021
- Home Office
- National statistics

Strengthening leading practice in the animals in science sector
- 28 February 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Closed call for evidence
Decapods: call for evidence
- 5 October 2023
- Home Office
- Closed call for evidence
Non-human primates used in safety or efficacy testing
- 7 September 2023
- Animals in Science Committee
- Closed call for evidence
2010 to 2015 government policy: animal research and testing
- 8 May 2015
- Home Office
- Policy paper
Working to reduce the use of animals in research: delivery report
- 26 March 2015
- Home Office, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper

Non-technical summaries granted in 2025
- 11 July 2025
- Home Office
- Transparency
ASC and AWERB Hub workshop report: April 2025
- 3 July 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Corporate report
Animals in Science Committee: members' register of interests
- 2 June 2025
- Animals in Science Committee
- Transparency
Non-technical summaries granted in 2022
- 10 April 2025
- Home Office
- Transparency
Non-technical summaries granted in 2018
- 1 April 2025
- Home Office
- Transparency