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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the recommendations of the Epidemiology Report on bovine TB on the Cheshire Edge by Sue Ridout; and if she will make a statement.

Detailed six monthly epidemiology reports on TB in the Edge of High Risk Area (which includes Cheshire) and also the Low Risk Area of England will be published from this summer. This positive development will give cattle keepers and their vets a fuller and more detailed picture of the TB risks in these areas.