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Home Office: Departmental Committee on Experiments on Animals: Evidence and Papers
Catalogue reference: HO 269
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HO 269
Minutes, evidence and working papers of the Committee.
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HO 269
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Departmental Committee on Experiments on Animals: Evidence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, evidence and working papers of the Committee.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Departmental Committee on Experiments on Animals, 1963-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Departmental Committee on Experiments on Animals was appointed on 23 May 1963 by the Home Secretary, Henry Brooke, under the chairmanship of Sir Sydney Littlewood.
The terms of reference were: "To consider the present control over experiments on living animals, and to consider whether, and if so what, changes are desirable in the law or its administration." The Report of the Committee (Cmnd 2641) was published in April 1965.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9133/
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Home Office: Departmental Committee on Experiments on Animals: Evidence and Papers