Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will place in the Library the recommendations of the scientific advisers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory which provided the basis for Schedule 1 to the Offensive Weapons Bill.
We have been working closely with scientific advisers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and formerly at the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology on the corrosive products and concentration limits set out in Schedule 1 of the Offensive Weapons Bill. A paper setting out the scientific advice we have received will be made available to Parliament by Committee stage of the Offensive Weapons Bill.