Lieut.-Colonel W. GUINNESSasked the Home Secretary whether the Home Office have any power to regulate painful experiments on invertebrates; and whether he proposes to introduce legislation to extend the provisions of the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, so as to deal with this omission?
§ Mr. SHORTT:Section 22 of the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, expressly excludes invertebrate animals from the provisions of the Act. The reply to the second part of the questions is in the negative.