Animals in Science Regulation Unit privacy statement
Published 12 June 2026
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The data provided by you and your establishments is used by the Home Office, the Animals in Science Committee and trusted, security vetted, government suppliers to assess the suitability of licence applications and ongoing compliance with legal requirements. It is also used to process metrics that are used to help improve the service that ASRU provides.
The information you provide to the Home Office as part of regulated activities under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, is considered by us to be information provided in confidence. We are prohibited from releasing it under section 24 of the same Act. This may also apply where the Home Office restates the information supplied in the course of its decision-making.
The non-technical summaries supplied as part of the process are not treated by the Home Office as having been provided in confidence. Information provided in the non-technical summaries of project licences, and in the annual statistics, will be de-identified before being published on GOV.UK.
De-identified data may also be used to answer Parliamentary Questions, and Freedom of Information requests and other types of correspondence, unless disclosure of that information is prohibited by section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
We will only ever share any identifiable data if we are required to do so by law – for example, by court order, or to prevent fraud or other crime.