HC Deb 22 November 1976 vol 919 cc872-3W
Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether the warnings in the report to the Medical Research Council of May last relative to the dangers of those practising vivisection on imported primates were known at Porton.

Dr. Gilbert

Porton has been aware, since its publication, of a report with the title "Laboratory Non Human Primates for Biomedical Research in the United Kingdom. A Report to the Medical Research Council on the Existing Provision and Future Needs."