Animal Experiments

HC Deb 10 November 1992 vol 213 cc691-2W

Mr. Ward

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of experimental procedures involving animals in 1991.

Thousands
	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991
Non-EC nationals admitted to the United Kingdom as visitors	4,480	5,080	5,900	6,570	5,350	5,730	5,670	6,220	6,720	5,690
Non-EC nationals refused leave to enter and removed from the United Kingdom	12,234	13,981	17,355	17,925	23,110	17,876	19,217	22,536	19,035	18,182
Persons refused an entry clearance other than for settlement1, at posts abroad	2—	2—	2—	2—	2—	2—	2—	2—	68,210	77,380

Mr. Charles Wardle

Information on the number of scientific procedures involving living animals started in 1991 is contained in table 1 of the Command Paper "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain, 1991", Cm 2023, a copy of which is in the Library.