§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps were taken to ensure that the dogs supplied from non-designated sources in the United Kingdom in 1995 for use in scientific procedures were not ex-pets, strays or stolen. [1839]
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§ Mr. George HowarthThe provenance was checked as far as possible and the legal owner's consent obtained in each case.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the acute lethal toxicity tests in Table 12, column 2 of the 1995 Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain were (1) LD50/LC50 tests, (2) other acute lethal tests and (3) sub-acute, repeat-dose lethal tests. [1739]
§ Mr. HowarthColumn 2 of table 12 reports aggregated totals by species for acute LD50, LC50 and other acute lethal tests. Licensees are not required to record in their statistical returns which of these tests they carried out. A breakdown into test type is therefore not centrally available. Sub-acute toxicity tests (which may include repeat dosages but which are not necessarily lethality tests) are recorded in column 5 of table 12.