Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 108576, what guidance on primates his Department provides to local authorities to assist them to reflect the illegality of keeping primates in the same sort of environment as one would keep a domesticated pet animal in their policies for licensing businesses selling pets.

There is no date set for the review of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Privately Kept Non-human Primates (the primate code). The welfare codes for cats, dogs and horses are currently being reviewed because they are in greater need of being updated. The primate code is available for local authorities to use in any situations where they have concerns about the welfare of such animals.