§ Mr. Viantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many experiments were performed for public authorities and how many for the purpose of testing sera and vaccines during the year 1944.
§ Mr. Ede:I presume my hon. Friend is referring to experiments performed under licence under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876. The figures for which he asks have not been extracted from the annual returns of the licence holders since 1939. In that year, out of a total of 954,691 experi-
Imports from the British Empire, January-June, 1946 … Volume in '000 tons. Value(f.o.b.) in £millions Main Sources, Cereals … … … 2,048 32.0 Canada Oils and fats … … … 545 15.3 India, Ceylon, British West Africa Sugar … … … … 150 2.9 British West Indies Meat and meat products … 348 29.8 Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire Dairy Produce … … 197 24.8 Australia, New Zealand, Canada Eggs (shell and processed) … 36 8.0 Australia, Canada, Eire Fresh fruit and vegetables … 181 5.8 Palestine, South Africa, Channel Islands Tea … … … … 88 16.2 Ceylon, India Coffee … … … 15 1.5 Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda Cocoa … … … … 86 3.6 British West Africa Beer, wines and spirits … 110 5.1 Australia, South Africa, British West Indies, Eire Tobacco … … … 22 4.9 Rhodesia, India, Nyasaland Canada Miscellaneous … … — 12.6 3,826 162.5