Question follow-through · 28927
Animal Experiments: Primates
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to address the 38 per cent increase in non-human primates bred in Africa and used for the first time in scientific procedures in the UK in 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to address the 38 per cent increase in non-human primates bred in Africa and used for the first time in scientific procedures in the UK in 2025.
14 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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21 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that non-human primates used in scientific procedures are sourced responsibly and used only where no suitable alternative is available. In 2025, 1,845 non-human primates were used for the first time in scientific pr...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
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