§ 84. Mr. Peter Freemanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many experiments on living animals have been conducted under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, in connection with cancer to the latest known date; and what results have been obtained as to the cause or cure of this disease.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeFrom 1907, when these figures were first kept separately, to the end of 1952, 1,367,820 experiments were carried out in connection with cancer research. It is not within my province to assess the results of such experiments.
§ 85. Mr. Peter Freemanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for a licence were refused in each category in each year to conduct an experiment on a living animal since the Act was passed in 1876; and what were the reasons for the refusal in each case.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThis information is not available.