HC Deb 11 May 1982 vol 23 cc246-7W
Mr. Bidwell

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those laboratories within the United Kingdom which are his responsibility and which experiment on live animals.

Mr. Pattie

They are as follows: Admiralty marine technology establishment (physiological laboratory) at Alverstoke; chemical defence establishment at Porton Down; David Bruce laboratories at East Everleigh; institute of aviation medicine at Farnborough; Royal Army medical college, Millbank. The institute of naval medicine at Alverstoke and the atomic weapons research establishment at Aldermaston are also licensed for animal experiments; but none are currently being undertaken there, and none are planned.