Clause 1 - FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
Animal Health Bill
3:30 pm
Mr David Drew (Stroud, Labour/Co-operative)
If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I shall pick him up on that matter and then go on to the point that I wanted to raise.
The Dutch taught us something about vaccination. There were particular reasons why they vaccinated, but after independent, careful consideration, they subsequently decided to cull. The vaccination was, in a sense, irrelevant. It was a firebreak.
My main point is to ask the hon. Gentleman to define what he means by a national contingency plan, because I am confused about it. The recent crisis was a series of localised outbreaks rather than one national outbreak.