§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports have been prepared by his Department in the last three years on vivisection; and when these will be published.
§ Mr. RaisonThe following reports about experiments on living animals have been prepared in the Home Office in the last three years:
- Statistics of experiments on living animals: Great Britain 1978, published as Cmnd. 7628 in 1979; 1979, Cmnd. 8069 in 1980; and 1980, Cmnd. 8301 in 1981.
- Report on the LD50 test presented to the Secretary of State by the Advisory Committee on the Administration of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, published 1979.
- Report to the Secretary of State by the Advisory Committee on Animal Experiments on the Framework of Legislation to Replace the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, published September 1981.