HC Deb 01 December 1993 vol 233 c621W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his Department will accept the recommendations made by the Animal Procedures Committee in its annual report 1992.

Mr. Charles Wardle

The document is a report on the activities of the committee including matters upon which it has made recommendations in the course of 1992. The committee recommended the extension of the controls of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Octopus vulgaris and made recommendations in respect of nine applications for project licences under section 5 of the Act. Its recommendations were accepted.