§ Mr. Viantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why there have been no prosecutions of persons who, according to the Return of Experiments performed under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, during 1955, had shown a reprehensible degree of carelessness.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeAs is explained in the last paragraph of the Return it did not appear that in any of these cases there had been any deliberate intention to contravene the Act. I was satisfied, after careful consideration of each case on its merits, that prosecution was not justified