HC Deb 21 July 1994 vol 247 cc497-8W
Mr. Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the recent report by the Animal Procedures Committee on regulatory toxicology and the recommendations it contains;

(2) which of those recommendations made in the report of the Animal Procedures Committee on regulatory toxicology he intends to incorporate into Home Office policy.

Mr. Maclean

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, South-West (Mr. Page) on 19 July,Official Report, column 153.

Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the types and numbers of cosmetics tests carried out on animals in 1992; and if he will give a further breakdown of these figures indicating which tests involved raw ingredients and which involved finished products.

Mr. Maclean

A special exercise undertaken by the Home Office at the request of the Animal Procedures Committee showed that 2,227 animals were used in cosmetics tests during 1992, a fall of nearly 40 per cent. on the previous year's figure. Of the animals used during 1992, 1,826 were involved in tests on ingredients; the remaining 401 involved various tests on a single finished product.

I understand that a more detailed breakdown of the types and numbers of cosmetics tests carried out during 1993 will appear in the forthcoming annual report of the Animal Procedures Committee. I have asked for a similar analysis to be undertaken in respect of 1992, and I shall write to the hon. Member with the results.