Bovine TB

Sheryll Murray Excerpts
Tuesday 19th July 2011

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Caroline Spelman Portrait Mrs Spelman
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It is clear that we have taken our time on this decision because it is important that we make the right one. We have taken more time than we originally intended to listen to all the stakeholders involved—some of them more than once. We wanted to make an oral statement and the decision is in our business plan for July. I have therefore come to make that oral statement.

Sheryll Murray Portrait Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall) (Con)
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May I urge the Secretary of State to ignore the advice from the Labour party, which failed to act decisively when it was in power and instead allowed the problem to escalate?