§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) persons, and (b) establishments are licensed to perform experiments on live animals;
(2) if he will give his estimate of experiments on live animals which occurred in the United Kingdom during 1977.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe latest available figures are for 1976. Numbers of licensees and registered places and the number of experiments performed were published for Great Britain in "Experiments on Living Animals"—House of Commons Paper 1—on 8th November 1977 and for Northern Ireland in the report of the Inspector entitled "Cruelty to Animals Act 1876: Experiments on living animals", copies of which are in the Library. Figures for 1977 will be published later in the year.