Animal Experiments: Primates

(asked on 10th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) marmosets and (b) tamarins were used in scientific procedures at (a) Porton Down and (b) other premises licenced by the Government in 2017.


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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 23rd April 2019

The annual publication of annual statistics on the use of animals in scientific research in Great Britain is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/724611/annual-statistics-scientific-procedures-living-animals-2017.pdf.

Data are available on the number of procedures by species of the animal and for what purpose, and also the number of animals used for the first time in procedures and by purpose. The data show that in 2017 there were 166 procedures on marmosets and tamarins, and 110 marmosets and tamarins used for the first time in procedures.

Data are not collected on the numbers of animals housed at individual establishments.

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