§ Sir R. Russellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what incentives are given by research bodies for which he is responsible to medical scientists to develop new techniques which avoid the need for experiments on living animals and will be satisfactory for testing drugs and ensuring their safe use in human beings.
§ Mr. FowlerThe Medical Research Council is always ready to consider giving390W financial support for lines of investigation which hold the promise of further advance in this direction; moreover the possibility of finding suitable alternatives to animals in medical investigations, including those on drug safety, is very much in the minds of Council staff, and medical research workers generally, during the course of their own researches.