Trade in primates continues because the ban does not include the offspring of wild-caught parents, it is claimed

Thousands of monkeys have been imported into the UK for use in laboratory research despite a legal ban, animal rights campaigners have claimed. The trade in primates continues because the ban, introduced in 1997, does not include the offspring of wild-caught parents, said the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). Between 2008 and 2009 almost 5,000 primates were brought into the UK to be used in experiments. The figures were disclosed by the Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone in response to a parliamentary question.