Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what notifications his Department has received of outbreaks of the stain 9D of Bovine TB of the strain 9D and which locations those notifications came from.

Genotype (strain) 9:d of Mycobacterium bovis represents about 3% of all isolates of the bacterium cultured every year from cattle herds sustaining a fully confirmed bovine TB incident in England. The vast majority of herds infected with this strain of M. bovis are located in Wiltshire (the natural or endemic home range of genotype 9:d).