Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what primates were used in animal experimentation; and from which countries in each of the last three years figures are available.

Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain are published on an annual basis. The reports for the last three years are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals.

The number of non-human primates used for the first time in procedures in that year is given in Table 1a of the data tables published in each of the last three statistical reports.

The place of birth of non-human primates used for the first time in experimental procedures by species in that year is given in Table 2.2 of the data tables published in each of the last three statistical reports. Place of birth is presented by whether the animals were born in the UK, EU, Asia, America, Africa or elsewhere. Data are not collected on the specific country of birth.