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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to produce updated public guidance on the ban on primates from April 2026.

Accompanying guidance to the Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2024 was published on 10 July 2025.

The guidance can be found at:

• Licensing process for keeping primates - GOV.UK
• Licence conditions for primate keepers (Schedule 1) - GOV.UK
• Callitrichids: licence conditions for keepers (Annex A) - GOV.UK