§ Mr. David TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will release the unpublished sections of the investigation into the operations of the Harlan UK animal breeding centre in Belton, North West Leicestershire. [114310]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienBlanked out areas of the text in the report which I placed in the Library on 8 March represent points bearing on commercial sensitivity, personal safety or confidentiality agreements entered into by the Home Office with the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) at the outset of our investigation.
157WIt is my wish to publish a fuller version of the report, but I cannot do so without the agreement of the BUAV to waive its confidentiality agreement. We are awaiting a final response from the BUAV on this point. They have agreed to waive a couple of the lines out of the ninety lines blanked out and are considering whether they will lift the restrictions on the rest of the blanked out sections of the report.