HC Deb 05 July 1909 vol 7 cc1004-5W
Mr. GEORGE GREENWOOD

asked the Home Secretary whether particulars of the various experiments referred to as irregularities in the Report of the inspector of experiments on living animals in the Return for 1908 appear in Table IV. or in any other table in such Return; and whether an inspector was present at any, and, if so, which, of such experiments, or whether the answers given by him with regard to such experiments are based solely upon the reports furnished by the licencees themselves?

Mr. GLADSTONE

The experiments in question are entered in the table under the heading that would have covered them if the proper certificates had been obtained by the licensee. The inspector was not present when the irregularities occurred, but he subsequently saw some of the animals. The irregularities were discovered from examination of the reports made by the licensees.