Each year, Her Majesty's Stationery Office (the UK government's official printer) formally publishes two Command Papers on the working of the 1986 Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act. These two publications - ‘Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals’ and ‘Report of the Animal Procedures Committee’ - are presented by the Secretary of State for the Home Department (the government agency responsible for the control of animal experimentation) to parliament, and at the same time they are offered for general sale, ie they become public documents.