§ Adam PriceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many licensed scientific experiments have been undertaken on primates in the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years. [160270]
§ Caroline FlintThe information requested is shown in table 20 of Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain, 2002, and table 1 of Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Northern Ireland, 1993–2002, copies of which are in the Library.
For ease of reference the numbers of procedures performed for the first time on primates each year are shown in the table.
Numbers of procedures Great Britain Northern Ireland 1993 4,994 — 1994 5,163 — 1995 4,721 — 1996 4,374 — 1997 3,908 — 1998 3,655 — 1999 4,003 — 2000 3,690 — 2001 3,986 — 2002 3,977 —