Core official sources
- Animals in Science Regulation Unit collection
- Home Office annual statistics 2024
- ASRU annual report 2024
- Non-technical summaries collection
- Research and testing using animals: licences and guidance
- Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
- GOV.UK guidance on the operation of ASPA
- User guide to annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals
Alternatives and government strategy sources
Camp Beagle links
- Camp Beagle homepage
- Camp Beagle: get involved
- Camp Beagle campaign materials
- Camp Beagle: write to your MP
- Camp Beagle: donate
Bred For Labs is a smaller support initiative. For frontline campaign updates and action routes, visit Camp Beagle directly.
Dog sentience, pain and suffering sources
- GOV.UK: Animal Sentience Committee report on legislative definitions
- British Veterinary Association: animal sentience position
- World Small Animal Veterinary Association: pain recognition, assessment and treatment guidelines
- Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine: recognising pain in dogs
- NC3Rs: improving the welfare of laboratory dogs
- Hall, Robinson and Buchanan-Smith: refining oral gavage in dogs
- RSPCA: reducing severe suffering in laboratory animals
Priority NTS PDF sources
ASRU timeline and dog experiment writeups
The “Who signs this off?” page is built from year-by-year plain-language writeups of official non-technical summaries from 2017 to 2025. Each timeline entry includes a source signpost to the relevant year, study title and document period.
- 2017–2018: older NTS volumes using project-title signposts where page numbers were not always available.
- 2019–2025: priority dog and beagle writeups using Home Office non-technical summaries, especially programmes involving dosing, repeated blood sampling, surgery, confinement, biological product collection and killing.
- ASRU critique: based on ASRU annual reports, compliance policy and the regulator notes and ASRU source material used for this site.
For public launch, the source signposts in the timeline should be checked one final time against the original Home Office PDFs and updated with direct links where useful.
Public wording used on cards
- “2,646 dog experiments were recorded in Britain in 2024.” This is plain-language wording based on the official Home Office figure of 2,646 experimental procedures using dogs in Great Britain in 2024.
- “Most were regulatory tests — not attempts to discover new cures.” This is plain-language wording based on the official 2024 data showing most dog procedures were regulatory.
- “Dogs are not just statistics.” This is supported by animal-sentience and veterinary pain-recognition sources listed above.