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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2021-07-05more like thismore than 2021-07-05
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Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Primates: Animal Experiments more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans for her Department's policy to only allow non-human primates who are the offspring of those bred in captivity or who are sourced from self-sustaining colonies that do not trap monkeys in the wild to be used in scientific research in line with the EU policy due to be implemented in 2022. more like this
tabling member constituency Crawley more like this
tabling member printed
Henry Smith remove filter
uin 27126 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2021-07-12more like thismore than 2021-07-12
answer text <p>The requirement of EU Directive 2010/63/EU that non-human primates cannot be sourced from the wild for breeding within a self-sustaining colony is already implemented for Marmosets, as stated in the UK legislation.</p><p>The UK legislation presently requires that all non-human primates used in research are bred specifically for research, so wild caught animals cannot not be used for procedures.</p><p>Establishments that have a licence to breed other primate species must have a strategy in place to increase the proportion of primates bred from primates bred in captivity.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle more like this
answering member printed Victoria Atkins more like this
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answering member
4399
label Biography information for Victoria Atkins remove filter
tabling member
3960
label Biography information for Henry Smith more like this