HC Deb 09 June 1931 vol 253 cc835-6W
Mr. FREEMAN

asked the Secretary of State for War the total expenses, incurred by the various departments of the chemical warfare committee for the purpose of experiments on living animals during 1930, divided into the most detailed classification available?

Mr. SHAW

Experiments on animals play but a small part in the scientific investigations which are necessarily carried out in connection with protection against poison gas, and it is not possible to give a specific figure for this part of the total cost of the chemical defence research department.