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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primates: Pets (21 October 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to introduce legislation to ban the sale of primates as pets.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

Answer

Primates are wild animals with complex needs and it is already against the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to keep them in a domestic pet environment, particularly if kept alone rather than in a social group.



Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
29 October 2015

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