HC Deb 17 July 1974 vol 877 cc160-1W
Miss Fookes

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much Government financial aid has been given to research specifically aimed at the further development of alternatives to the use of experimental animals.

Mr. Gerry Fowler

The Medical Research Council makes no allocation of funds for this purpose. It considers that alternative methods are best developed in close and continuing contact with research projects for which animals would otherwise be used.