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78698

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date	17/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether future badger culls will be independently monitored.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	206519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Monitoring will continue to be carried out on both effectiveness and humaneness during the second year of the badger culls. As during the pilot culls last year, trained staff from Animal Health Veterinary Laboratory Agency and Natural England will be carrying out the monitoring. The monitoring will be focused on addressing the issues identified in the Independent Expert Panel’s report on last year’s pilot culls. Both field observations of controlled shooting and post-mortem examinations will continue to be carried out. The results of the monitoring will be made publicly available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/09/2014 14:27:52 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

78707

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the UK's obligations are in respect of badger culling under the Bern Convention.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	206439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Bern Convention requires appropriate and necessary legislative measures to be taken to ensure the protection of badgers, the regulation of their exploitation, e.g. by imposing close seasons, and the prohibition of certain means of capture and killing. Exceptions can be made for a number of purposes including the protection of livestock, provided the exception is not detrimental to the survival of the population concerned and there is no other satisfactory solution.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have considered the provisions of the Bern Convention and our policy complies with the requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/09/2014 14:32:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

78708

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will assess more than six species of wildlife as potential carriers of bovine TB and in relation to tackling that disease.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	206461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><em>Mycobacterium bovis </em>(the bovine TB bacterium) has a wide range of hosts and can infect (and cause TB) in virtually all mammalian species, including farmed animals other than cattle, companion animals and wildlife. While <em>M. bovis </em>has been found in a number of different British wild mammals, evidence from previous wildlife surveys, risk assessments and modelling studies indicates that the badger remains the principal and possibly the only significant wildlife maintenance host of the bacterium in the West of England and parts of Wales. Consequently, Defra is not currently planning to test further wildlife species for TB (apart from the statutory notifications of deer carcases with suspect TB lesions), although we will keep under review the potential role of other wildlife, especially deer, in the epidemiology of this disease.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/09/2014 14:55:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

77399

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his Answer of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 727W, on Bovine Tuberculosis, whether planned further research into the use of carbon monoxide as a potential sett-based means of humane culling will be conducted on live badgers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	205453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to use live badgers in research on the use of carbon monoxide as a potential sett-based means of humane culling.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/07/2014 11:54:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

65698

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many veterinary surgeons are qualified to undertake bovine tuberculosis testing in each NUTS-1 region of England.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	204003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The number of Official Veterinarians qualified to undertake TB skin tests are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Midlands – 516</p><p> </p><p>North – 535</p><p> </p><p>South East – 325</p><p> </p><p>South West – 686</p><p> </p><p>Wales – 468</p><p> </p><p>Scotland – 438</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TOTAL – 2968</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Practices – 607</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NUTS-1 refers to the old local government regions. We do not record data on this basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/07/2014 14:30:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

65699

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the cost of introducing annual testing for bovine tuberculosis.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	204013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2012 the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England considered options for changes to the herd testing programme for bovine tuberculosis including the recommended county-based approach deployed from 2013. The additional cost to government of introducing annual herd testing in England was estimated at £12.8m for 19,600 additional herd tests per year. The average cost of a routine bovine tuberculosis herd test to a farmer was estimated at £350 in 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/07/2014 14:06:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

65702

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the role of outdoor-reared pigs in transmission of bovine TB; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
uin	203887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The veterinary risk assessment on pigs has recently been reviewed. We intend to publish this in a forthcoming consultation package on TB in non-bovine farmed and companion animals.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 09/07/2014 09:27:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

64605

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the badgers shot or trapped in the Somerset and Gloucestershire pilot culls were infected with tuberculosis.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The purpose of the structured programme of field observations of controlled shooting and the associated post-mortem examination of carcases was to gather the required evidence to support an assessment of humaneness of controlled shooting, not to test badgers culled for infection with <em>M.bovis</em>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 14/07/2014 13:22:01 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

64606

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many separate contractors were employed in (1) Somerset, and (2) Gloucestershire in the recent badger culls; and how many people were actively engaged in culling in each county.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the pilot badger culls of 2013, the number of contractors employed in Somerset was 107, and 95 in Gloucestershire.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As set out in the licences issued by Natural England to each area, the licensees were required to submit details of the persons they wished to be authorised to take or kill badgers. As such, a list of 107 such persons was provided for West Somerset and 95 provided for West Goucestershire. How many of these contractors were deployed or actively engaged in culling operations was and remains an operational matter for the licensees and, as such, this information is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 15/07/2014 17:20:44 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

64607

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why it was a requirement that there should be access to only 70 per cent of the land area of the badger culling pilots; and whether that percentage was achieved in each of the two counties involved in the pilots.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>As set out in Guidance to Natural England, applications for culling licences were required to have access for culling to at least 70% of the total land area in the application. This is based on evidence from the Randomised Badger Culling Trial. In issuing a licence to each area in autumn 2012, Natural England confirmed that the applications from West Somerset and Gloucestershire had met this condition.</p> answering member printed Lord De Mauley question first answered 10/07/2014 12:37:33 answering member 2202 label Biography information for Lord De Mauley
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton