To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018 report published in July 2019, for what reason the number of non-human primates used for the first time in experimental procedures who came from a first generation primate has increased from one in 2017 to 246 in 2018.
Answered on
28 June 2021
With reference to the report entitled Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, the change in the published figures for the first-generation primates (F1) from 2017 to 2018 was likely due to a correction amongst those establishments supplying the data over the definition of a self-sustaining colony. In the 2017 statistics some establishments with F1 primates returned data for them within the self-sustaining colony return.
The regulator subsequently provided guidance to all establishments to correct this in the 2018 returns.