INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE DAY

Early day motion 2633, tabled 24 July 2006 by Colin Challen (Labour). Signed by 59 members.

That this House welcomes International Primate Day on 1st September 2006, organised by Animal Defenders International; expresses its deep concern that the United Kingdom has become Europe's largest user of laboratory monkeys; notes that the use of monkeys in military experiments has soared by 76 per cent. in the last five years; highlights that the use of non-human primates is an unreliable predictor of likely human effects, as the disastrous TGN1412 tests have shown; is alarmed by the fact that the very existence of many primate species is threatened by the bushmeat, laboratory and pet trades as well as the use of primates for entertainment; calls on the Government to push for a ban on primates in experiments at EU level during the current revision process of EU Directive 86/609; and asks the Government to support the Berlin Declaration calling for an end to primate experiments, which has been signed by over 70 organisations worldwide.

Signatures by party: Labour 38, Liberal Democrat 14, Conservative 5, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.