§ Mr. FREEMANasked the Home Secretary the average number of experiments Oil living animals that have been conducted in connection with cancer during the last 10 years?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe figures are given each year in the Annual Return. The average for the 10 years 1919–1928 is 13,369. These figures represent the number of experiments performed at the special cancer research centres and of those done elsewhere under grants from the Medical Research Council and the British Empire Cancer Campaign. In addition to these, some experiments were probably done by licence-holders in the course of private research. The returns do not show these separately, so I cannot give the number, but it was certainly small.