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1003630

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date	09/11/2018
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: Cumbria
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 the Answer of 5 November to Questions 185481 and 185482 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Cumbria, what criteria Natural England uses to specify minimum effort in culling badgers in Cumbria; and how does Natural England measure the effectiveness and success of that effort.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	189534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Effort is defined as culling activity on a parcel of land, both cage trapping and controlled shooting. The area must deploy at least the same amount of effort as an effective High Risk Area (HRA) and Edge Area cull where 22 traps are equal to 1 night of shooter activity. The effectiveness of the cull in Cumbria is being analysed and will be published alongside the assessments of all other culls in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/11/2018 17:14:38 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1003632

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
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: Cumbria
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 the Answer of 5 November to Question 185483 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Cumbria, how many of the 14 County Parish Holdings in Cumbria that submitted samples for gamma tests are in the badger cull zone.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	189535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the 14 County Parish Holdings in Cumbria that submitted samples for gamma tests, five fall within the badger cull zone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/11/2018 16:56:38 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

997671

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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: Cumbria
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 definition is used by his Department for the minimum annual control that is required on the licence to cull badgers in Cumbria; and what the reason is that the Cumbrian licence requirements is the only license issued in September 2018 that does not include minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	185481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The definition of minimum annual control is provided on the Cumbria authorisation letter:</p><p>(<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739750/area-32-cumbria-tb-area-control-licence-redacted.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739750/area-32-cumbria-tb-area-control-licence-redacted.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The aim of badger culling in the Low Risk Area is to remove all potentially infected badgers as quickly as possible, in order to remove infection before it has a chance to spread widely in badgers in the area. Therefore, surveillance during a cull is of greater use to determine the remaining population.</p><p> </p><p>The Bern Secretariat have been informed of the Guidance to Natural England on requirements for badger control in the Low Risk Area of England. The cull area in Cumbria is 0.3% of the Low Risk Area and Natural England did not set a maximum number of badgers to be removed. The guidance to Natural England can be found on Gov.uk at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/11/2018 10:41:04 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

997672

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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: Cumbria
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 a population estimate has been conducted to determine how many badgers need to be culled in Cumbria to meet his Department's tests on reducing bovine TB in cattle herds (a) without causing local extinction and (b) by removing 70 per cent of the badger population.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	185482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The definition of minimum annual control is provided on the Cumbria authorisation letter:</p><p>(<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739750/area-32-cumbria-tb-area-control-licence-redacted.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739750/area-32-cumbria-tb-area-control-licence-redacted.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The aim of badger culling in the Low Risk Area is to remove all potentially infected badgers as quickly as possible, in order to remove infection before it has a chance to spread widely in badgers in the area. Therefore, surveillance during a cull is of greater use to determine the remaining population.</p><p> </p><p>The Bern Secretariat have been informed of the Guidance to Natural England on requirements for badger control in the Low Risk Area of England. The cull area in Cumbria is 0.3% of the Low Risk Area and Natural England did not set a maximum number of badgers to be removed. The guidance to Natural England can be found on Gov.uk at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-natural-england-preventing-spread-of-bovine-tb</a></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/11/2018 10:44:05 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

997673

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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: Cumbria
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 cattle that failed the skin test tested positive on the gamma interferon test in Cumbria in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	185483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2017 a total of 6,718 gamma tests were carried out in Cumbria (27 submissions from 14 separate CPHs). Of these, 201 skin-test-negative animals were gamma-test-positive.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/11/2018 10:22:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew