Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in 2017.
During 2017, 32,416 cattle were compulsorily slaughtered in England because they responded to the tuberculin skin test or interferon-gamma test in a way that was consistent with being infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Official statistics on TB in cattle in Great Britain can be found at