PRIMATE EXPERIMENTS

Early day motion 1307, tabled 3 June 2003 by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 131 members.

That this House believes that experiments on primates cannot be justified in view of the important biological differences between people and primates and their well-developed intellectual and social awareness, which makes their needs impossible to meet in a laboratory and their suffering so severe; notes public opposition to the practice; therefore believes it is time for the UK to adopt the Zero Option, a total end to experiments on all primates; and calls upon the Government to extend the ban on the use of great apes to all primates as a matter of urgency.

Signatures by party: Labour 79, Liberal Democrat 27, Conservative 8, Labour/Co-operative 5, Scottish National Party 4, DUP 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Independent Conservative 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.