Mr. GREENWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the names of those licensed experimenters on living animals who have committed a breach of the law in the course of such experiments are suppressed in the Returns relating to such experiments?
§ Sir JOHN SIMONIf the offence were serious and a prosecution followed the name would, of course, become public; but it has never been the practice to publish the names of persons guilty of technical offences or the omission of formalities which can be adequately dealt with by reprimand, and I do not think any useful purpose would be served by altering the rule. The Royal Commission discussed the point in their Report (page 13), but made no recommendation in favour of publication.