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Simon Hart Excerpts
Thursday 30th June 2011

(13 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Paice Portrait Mr Paice
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My hon. Friend is right to stress the need for further policies to control TB. As I said earlier, we will make announcements fairly soon—before the House rises, we hope—on our proposals regarding badgers, and about wider cattle-to-cattle measures. I assure my hon. Friend and the House that the status quo, do-nothing agenda is not acceptable. Calculations show that if we do nothing and things stay as they are, it will cost the taxpayer £1 billion over the next 10 years.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The question is specifically about West Worcestershire, and Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is a little distance from there.