§ Mr. Rankinasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of experiments now being conducted on living animals in this country; and how many of these animals are given an anaesthetic.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe number of experiments performed in 1958 by persons licensed under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, was 3,245,990, of which 366,607 required anaesthetics. The figures for 1959 are not yet available.