HC Deb 18 November 1981 vol 13 c147W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports have been prepared by his Department in the last three years on vivisection; and when these will be published.

Mr. Raison

The following reports about experiments on living animals have been prepared in the Home Office in the last three years:

  • Statistics of experiments on living animals: Great Britain 1978, published as Cmnd. 7628 in 1979; 1979, Cmnd. 8069 in 1980; and 1980, Cmnd. 8301 in 1981.
  • Report on the LD50 test presented to the Secretary of State by the Advisory Committee on the Administration of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, published 1979.
  • Report to the Secretary of State by the Advisory Committee on Animal Experiments on the Framework of Legislation to Replace the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, published September 1981.