Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour), on Monday, 10 December 2001, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 144 members in total.

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USE OF PRIMATES IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS

That this House welcomes the publication by the RSPCA of their report, Counting the Cost, on the import of and laboratory experimentation on primates; and believes that urgent action should be taken to end long journey times for transported primates and introduce tighter regulations to ensure better welfare during transport, to ban the use of primates from overseas breeding centres that capture primates from the wild, to carry out a critical review of the necessity of and justification for all primate use at a national and international level, and to secure major improvements in housing and husbandry conditions for all laboratory primates consistent with their behavioural, social and physical needs.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

544 

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Animal welfare Animal experiments Imports Primates Transport

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk