§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions there have been 6W in each of the past three years for allowing animals to suffer severe and enduring pain during tests being made on them.
§ Mr. MellorAs reported in the three most recent annual Command Papers "Statistics of experiments on living animals" for 1979, 1980 and 1981 (Cmnds. 8069, 8301, 8657, appendix A under the heading "Infringements") no prosecutions were brought in those years in relation to experiments infringing the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876.