§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis asking for what purpose the police entered the offices of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection on 20 March; who issued the warrant; and what material was removed;
(2) if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to why the police removed a list of names of hon. Members from the offices of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection on 20 March.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis informs me that with a search warrant issued by Horseferry road magistrates' court his officers entered the premises of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in connection with the theft on 16–17 March of documents from the Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent. A large quantity of documents were removed, some of which have now been recognised as irrelevant to this police inquiry and are accordingly being returned to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. The list of names to which the hon. Member refers has been so returned.