§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the dates of visits by his Department's inspectors to Professor Ian Steele-Russell's animal laboratories in the last five years, along with the main findings of these visits.
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§ Mr. Douglas HoggIt is not our practice to disclose information of this nature. However, all establishments where licensed experimentation is carried out are visited frequently by inspectors, usually unannounced.
§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many animals have been used by Professor Ian Steele-Russell in the last five years; if he will list the species used and the experimental procedures used; and to what extent anaesthesia was used.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggIt is not our practice to disclose such information about experimentation specific to individual researchers or establishments which has been provided to us in confidence.