HC Deb 01 March 1932 vol 262 cc923-4
3. Mr. GROVES

asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office the reason why no reports have been issued on the work of the Chemical Warfare Medical Committee since 1920 on the question of poison gas experiments on animals; and where accounts of the experiments performed during the last 11 years, and their results, may be obtained?

Mr. COOPER

This Committee was dissolved in 1919 and research on such problems has been continued by the Chemical Defence Committee. Information as to the number of experiments performed is given in the Home Office Returns of Experiments on Living Animals of which the last issue was dated 29th July, 1931.

Mr. GROVES

Can the hon. Gentleman say whether experiments are still practised?

Mr. COOPER

Yes.

Mr. GROVES

And with what results?