§ 101. Mr. Burdenasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to make regulations to cover the crating and conditions of travel governing the export of animals for vivisection.
§ Mr. J. P. W. MallalieuI am concerned to ensure that all carriage of animals by sea or air is performed under proper conditions whatever the purpose for which they are being carried. My Department will therefore be ready to co-operate with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in any action needed to implement the Council of Europe's Convention on the International Transit of Animals if and when that is ratified by the United Kingdom. In the case of carriage by air, I am, as I indicated in my reply to the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Whitaker) on 2nd May, 1967, awaiting the findings of a special study by the International Air Transport Association.—[Vol. 746, c. 57–8.]
§ 102. Mr. Burdenasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take powers to require establishments that breed animals for research purposes to render a return of the categories and numbers of animals exported for research purposes and the countries to which they are sent.
§ Mr. DarlingNo.