Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 16th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish details of his Department's expenditure on TB eradication in England in each year since 2013.
Defra net expenditure on TB eradication in England since 2013 is as follows:
Financial year | Amount |
2013/2014 | £101,781,004 |
2014/2015 | £92,944,731 |
2015/2016 | £90,396,214 |
2016/2017 | £19,324,857 |
2017/2018 | £36,192,349 |
2018/2019 | £37,625,125 |
2019/2020 | £36,939,089 |
2020/2021 | £31,635,562 |
2021/2022 | £34,261,406 |
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TOTAL | £481,100,337 |
The lower figure shown for 2016/2017 is mainly due to a difference in the handling of salvage income rather than any cut in TB control expenditure in real terms. The costs of bovine TB-related work by the Animal and Plant Health Agency and predecessor bodies are accounted for separately by the relevant executive Agencies.