Saturday, 29 December 2012 10:40
'In 2001/2002 at the peak of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign, Huntingdon Life Sciences found itself unable to commercially source banking and insurance services. Companies did not want to be associated with the laboratory, which was exposed by a Channel 4 documentary that showed a worker punching a beagle puppy and has been exposed of ongoing animal cruelty on a number of occasions since. At this point HLS, on its knees financially, should have been forced to close.
Step in the UK government – so desperate to prop up the Life Sciences industry that it took the unusual step of providing the company with banking and insurance services.
Parliamentary questions have been asked and answered about this, but in April 2004 Rhonda Moorhouse decided to find out exactly why the government had decided to take this unusual decision and submitted an information request, asking some questions, to the department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), the government department responsible for providing these services.'
Parliamentary questions have been asked and answered about this, but in April 2004 Rhonda Moorhouse decided to find out exactly why the government had decided to take this unusual decision and submitted an information request, asking some questions, to the department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), the government department responsible for providing these services.'
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