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712434

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date	20/03/2017
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: Dogs
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 steps she is taking in response to the TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhounds to ensure that other hunts are free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Government veterinary experts have provided advice to the hunt kennels and hounds from the affected kennel have not been in contact with other hounds since the initial case was suspected. At this stage no further Government action is considered necessary in relation to other hunts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:02:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712435

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Dogs
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 research her Department has commissioned to date into the spread of TB from hunting hounds to cattle.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Bovine TB is a notifiable disease in all farmed and pet mammal species, including dogs. The disease has only very rarely been diagnosed in dogs, in this country and elsewhere, and investigations into bovine TB breakdowns in cattle herds have never identified the source of a breakdown as an infected dog.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:33:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712437

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to cancel all hunting activities until foxhound packs across the UK are certified to be free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>TB in dogs, caused by <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> (the bovine TB bacterium), is extremely rare and dogs pose a very low risk of transmitting the disease.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:00:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712438

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Dogs
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 steps her Department is taking to investigate the source of the bovine TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhound packs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>An epidemiological investigation into this incident is underway.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:44:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712440

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy for TB in hunt packs operating in close proximity to cattle to be a notifiable disease.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>This control has been in place for some time for all pet and farmed mammals. Under the Tuberculosis (England) Order 2014 the detection of suspect TB lesions in carcases and the identification of <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> from tissue or other samples (including dogs) is notifiable.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:47:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn