Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009

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Daniel Rogerson (North Cornwall, Liberal Democrat)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the merits of testing for bovine tuberculosis annually in all parishes, as is done in Wales.

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Jim Fitzpatrick (Minister of State (Minister for Food, Farming and Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Poplar & Canning Town, Labour)

The Bovine TB Eradication Group for England has recently reviewed the approach taken to setting routine TB testing frequencies to a risk based approach as announced in its report published on 8 October. Extending more frequent routine TB testing to more of the country would come at a high cost. As TB is a largely regional issue, concentrated in England in the South West and West Midlands, with large areas in the north and east predominantly clear, this risk based approach is deemed a more proportionate and effective use of resources.

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