Simply to ban the importation, breeding and selling of primates as pets in the UK. There is no need for people to keep these kind of pets - they belong in the wild or in an environment that can sustain their social, psychological and physical needs. In 2014 the Guardian newspaper ran an article saying ‘

There is a really simple test that can be applied to practices that create animal welfare issues. Simply ask: does it fulfil a human need that justifies suffering? This should not be taken to mean that anything we require can ethically be gained by exploiting animals, or even to place human need above animal welfare, but it can offer us a good starting place to do away with pointlessly harmful practices.

Appropriate pets to fulfil the basic human need for company are already common. The impulse to keep a monkey mostly appears to be based on novelty. There is no overwhelming human benefit being derived from keeping primates as pets that justifies its continuation.’