HC Deb 03 June 1991 vol 192 c73W
Dame Janet Fookes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information is held on the percentages of macaques used as laboratory animals in the United Kingdom which are singly housed; and what is the total number used.

Mrs. Rumbold

In 1989, the latest year for which figures are available, 2,904 scientific procedures involving macaques, were started. Information is not collected centrally on the number of such animals which were singly housed.

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