Written Question·Home Office·UIN 30104

Animal Experiments: Primates

Tabled: 10 February 2025
Answered: 17 February 2025

Question

Alberto Costa

ConservativeSouth Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a response to the Animals in Science Committee's research entitled Commission of advice: non-human primates bred for use in scientific procedures, published on 6 September 2022; an

Answer

Dan Jarvis
Through the UK legislation, the government requires the principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) to be delivered for non-human primates (NHPs) in scientific research. When there is no alternative to using NHPs in scientific procedure...

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