§ Mr. ColvinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the names of the members of the Animals Procedures Committee with their qualifications for membership.
§ Mrs. RumboldSection 19 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 requires that, of the members of the Animal Procedures Committee other than the chairman, at least two thirds shall be persons who hold full registration as medical practitioners, registration as veterinary surgeons or qualifications or experience in a biological subject approved by the Secretary of State as relevant to the work of the committee. The committee is also required to have one member who is a barrister, solicitor or advocate, and in making appointments to the committee my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is required to have regard to the desirability of ensuring that the interests of animal welfare are adequately represented. The Act also requires that at least half the members of the committee are persons who neither hold, nor within the previous six years have held, any licence under the 1986528W Act or under the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876. Current members of the Animal Procedures Committee have been appointed in line with these requirements.
The membership of the Animal Procedures Committee as at 22 November 1991 is as follows:
- Lord Nathan, MA Hon LLD (Chairman)
- Professor Michael Balls, MA DPhil, University of Nottingham, Chairman of the Trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME).
- Mr. Edward Bernard, FIAT, Chairman, Serotec Ltd.
- Professor Margaret Brazier, LLB, Professor of Law, University of Manchester
- Professor Barry Bridges, BSc MD, Professor of Histology, Queen's University, Belfast
- Dr. Roger Brimblecombe, PhD DSc FRCPath FIBiol, Consultant, Smith Kline and Beecham Laboratories Professor Fiona Broughton Pipkin, MA DPhil, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham
- Dr. Henry Carter, CBE MRCVS, Senior Vice President, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- Professor Anthony Dayan, MD FRCP FRCPath FIBiol, Professor of Toxicology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital
- Mr. Roger Ewbank, OBE MVSc FIBiol MRCVS, Director of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW)
- Mr. Clive Hollands, Secretary to the Committee for the Reform of Animal Experimentation (CRAE)
- Sir Andrew Huxley, OM FRS, Past President, Royal Society
- Dr. Susan Iversen, MA PhD, Director of Behavioural Pharmacology, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories
- Professor John Ledingham, DM FRCP, Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Dr. Brian Newbould, BPharm FPS PhD MCPP, Director International Research Affairs, ICI Corporate R &T
- Professor Onora O'Neill, MA PhD, Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex
- Professor Thomas Pilkington, MD FRCP, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, St. George's Hospital Medical School
- Professor Lord Soulsby, MA PhD DVSM AM DSc MRCVS, Professor of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge
529 - Professor Michael Spyer, BSc PhD DSc, Professor of Physiology, Royal Free Hospital Medical School
- Professor Peter Venables, BA PhD Hon DSc FBPsS, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of York