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Bovine Tuberculosis - Question (29 Jan 2020)

Lord Gardiner of Kimble: My Lords, I declare my farming interests as set out in the register. Bovine TB remains one of our greatest animal health threats, causing devastation and distress for hard-working farmers and rural communities. We therefore continue to take strong action to eradicate the disease. Professor Sir Charles Godfray’s independent review of our strategy highlighted a number of potential further...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Public Expenditure: 2019-2020 January Monitoring Round (27 Jan 2020)

Conor Murphy: ...timing of high-value compensation payments. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) declared a £2·6 million reduced requirement, reflecting the demand-led nature of bovine TB compensation. . Reduced requirements totalling £4·3 million have been declared by a number of Departments in relation to the £37·5 million in EU exit preparation funding provided...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders (21 Jan 2020)

Paul Davies: It's quite clear, First Minister, that farmers and farming unions don't think that your current policy on bovine TB is working and that's why it is crucial now that your Government reconsiders this policy in order to tackle this disease in a much more holistic way. Another pressing issue raised with me this morning, where the Welsh Government also has responsibility, is in relation to nitrate...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control ( 9 Jan 2020)

George Eustice: Bovine TB is one of the greatest animal health threats to the UK and is a major source of distress for hard-working farmers and rural communities. The most recent badger control policy value for money analysis, carried out in 2019, estimates the Net Present Value of Badger Control over eleven years at £1.08 million per area. Further information can be found on Gov.uk at the following link:...

QNR: Questions to the First Minister (19 Nov 2019)

Angela Burns: Will the First Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's plans to tackle Bovine TB?

Written Ministerial Statements — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Update (31 Oct 2019)

Theresa Villiers: ...for evidence on extending a ban to a range of animals including hippos, walruses and narwhals, and are consulting on banning imports of trophy hunting of endangered species. Commissioned the Bovine TB strategy review, published in 2018, on the Departments strategy for achieving Officially Bovine Tuberculosis Free status in England by 2038. Created a stronger future for farming with new...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (29 Oct 2019)

Tracey Crouch: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Bovine TB Strategy Review published in October 2018.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (28 Oct 2019)

George Eustice: ...wild badger population at Woodchester Park can adapt to assess any new impacts on the badger population, including from licensed badger culling taking place across Gloucestershire, which is in the Bovine TB High Risk Area of England. Woodchester Park’s work will continue to support policy and research in line with our TB strategy’s adaptive and evidence-based approach.

TB in Cattle and Badgers — [Phil Wilson in the Chair] (23 Oct 2019)

George Eustice: ...this debate and, as several hon. Members have said, on the sensitive way she approached a difficult and contentious issue, particularly in her recognition of the trauma this issue causes farmers. Bovine TB is one of our most difficult animal health challenges. It is a slow-moving, insidious disease. It is difficult to detect. None of the diagnostic tests are perfect. I will come on to that...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control ( 8 Oct 2019)

David Drew: ...Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent research she has commissioned on the safety of (a) milk and (b) meat that enters the human food chain of cattle slaughtered as a result of bovine TB incidence.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control ( 7 Oct 2019)

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions has she had with the Welsh Government on strategies for the eradication of bovine TB.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis Strategy Review ( 7 Oct 2019)

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to publish its response to the Godray Report on bovine TB.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination ( 7 Oct 2019)

George Eustice: Vaccination of cattle against the bovine TB bacterium is a part of our long-term eradication strategy. There are merits to cattle vaccination as it has the potential to reduce the prevalence, incidence and spread of TB. As with badgers, however, BCG (M. bovis - bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccination is not completely effective, and has no impact on already infected cattle. It also sensitises...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control ( 4 Oct 2019)

George Eustice: Bovine TB is one of the greatest animal health threats to the UK and the disease costs the public over £100million a year, with the cost to the farming industry around £50m a year. Badger control costs to Government in each of the last five years are as follows (to the nearest thousand pounds): 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Licensing and compliance monitoring £1,036,000...

3. Business Statement and Announcement (17 Sep 2019)

Rebecca Evans: ...smoking to call our free national helpline, Help Me Quit, on 0800 085 2219. We also have our helpmequit.wales website, which you can also visit as well, should anybody be interested.  In terms of bovine TB, I know the Minister for environment and rural affairs does provide regular updates to the Assembly on that issue and I know that she'll seek to provide a further update as and when...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control ( 9 Sep 2019)

Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her Department's policy on bovine TB to (a) end badger culling, (b) introduce risk-based cattle trading, (c) improve cattle testing and (d) roll-out badger vaccination programmes.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (31 Jul 2019)

George Eustice: ...of achieving disease control benefits. Assessments of the effectiveness of badger culling are published annually on gov.uk at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb-controll ing-the-risk-of-bovine-tb-from-badgers

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (18 Jul 2019)

Steven Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers tackle the spread of bovine TB.

1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (17 Jul 2019)

Llyr Gruffydd: ...the most appropriate way to do it. But it's the default position of this Government to blame the farmers, and I really—[Interruption.] I really do feel that that's a shame. We've seen it with the TB stuff as well. I hear Members—well, I'm not sure what they're saying, but they're making noises. With the TB stuff, in, I think it was, the last statement you made, you were telling farmers...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Testing (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Goodwill: A new EU Animal Health Regulation containing rules relevant to bovine TB control is due to come into force from 2021. Government officials have participated in expert group discussions on the so called delegated acts which will lay down the detailed rules. The UK devolved administrations have been fully involved in briefing for those meetings, including on the provisions for movement testing....


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