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Speakers:
Martin Walsh, Head, Home Office Animals Scientific Procedures Division
Judy MacArthur Clark, Chief Inspector, Home Office Animals Scientific Procedures Division
Prof Dominic Wells, Neuromuscular Disease Group, Royal Veterinary College
Dr Paul Trennery, Senior Vice President of Preclinical Development, GlaxoSmithKline
The SMC invited the Home Office to present their annual statistics report on the number of scientific procedures carried out on animals during research in the previous year. Two scientists joined the inspectors to put the stats into the broader context of scientific development.