ATTACK ON BRIAN CASS, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES

Early day motion 374, tabled 27 February 2001 by Helen Clark (Labour). Signed by 55 members.

That this House deplores the gratuitous and brutal attack by persons in balaclavas and wielding baseball bats on Brian Cass, Managing Director of Huntingdon Life Sciences; further deplores the spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front who refused to condemn the perpetrators of this attack when given the opportunity to do so on the Today programme; and calls upon the Government to introduce legislation to safeguard individuals targeted in this way.

Signatures by party: Labour 33, Liberal Democrat 9, Conservative 6, Labour/Co-operative 5, Plaid Cymru 1, UUP 1.