§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list all the establishments under Government control which experiment upon animals in the United Kingdom; which species of animals are experimented upon at each establishment; 332W and how many animals, listed by species, died while being experimented upon at these establishments during 1980 and so far in 1981.
§ Mr. RaisonA list of places registered under the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 is placed annually in the House of Commons Library; The latest list was so placed in September 1981. To identify all the establishments on that list which are under Government control would involve disproportionate cost.
Statistics of experiments on living animals under the Act, by species of animal, are presented to Parliament annually. Statistics are available only for the number of experiments started in any particular year; the latest are for experiments started in 1980—Cmnd 8301. Analyses by type of registered place are given in tables 12, 13 arid 20. It is not the practice to give information about the work of individual establishments; as explained in paragraph 6 of Cmnd 8301, licensees submit their returns in confidence.