Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many breaches of the regulations controlling the use of primates in research have been identified in each of the last three years.

The Home Office publishes all cases of non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act on an annual basis. The reports are available in the Home Office Regulator’s Annual Report at

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit-annual-reports.