Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cattle have been culled as a result of contracting diseases in (a) England, (b) the north-west and (c) Cumbria in each of the last 10 years.
DEFRA only holds statistics for notifiable diseases.
For bovine TB, the figures requested can be found in the statistics published on DEFRA's website at:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/statistics/foodfarm/landuselivestock/cattletb/
The following table shows the number of cattle culled by DEFRA for exotic notifiable disease control purposes.
England | North-west | Cumbria | |
2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2007 | 987 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The 2007 figures consist of 982 for foot and mouth disease and five for the Bluetongue outbreak.
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