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Select
Committee report ‘unimpressive’
Anti-vivisection
campaigners the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
(BUAV) has accused the Government of being "all talk and
no action" as it published its statement response to the
House of Lords Select Committee on Animal Procedures Report
of July 24th 2002.
Michelle Thew, BUAV Chief Executive said: “It is shameful
that it takes a report by the House of Lords to make this Government
take the issue of animal experiments seriously, but I fear that
the Government will use this as an excuse for more talk instead
of more action.
“I am not impressed by a Government response that lacks
any real substance. The Government's statement calls for more
consultation on freedom of information for animal experiments
when action on this issue is already long overdue; the Government's
appaling lack of funding for non-animal research development
is recognised in the Report and yet here the Government still
refuses to promote this to a top-priority area; and we see no
recognition at all in the Government's response to the Report’s
stinging criticisms of the Home Office Inspectorate's lack of
independence.
“British people want progressive policy instead of spin,
and they want decisive action instead of words. There is nothing
in today's insubstantial Government response that indicates
the Government has woken up to that fact.”
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