Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government has paid from the public purse in compensation to farmers for animals culled in efforts to control bovine tuberculosis since 1998.
This question was answered on 3rd November 2016
Net government compensation paid to farmers for animals culled in efforts to control bovine tuberculosis in England since 1998 is as follows. Net figures take account of any carcass salvage income received by government:
- 1998/1999 - £0.2m
- 1999/2000 - £4.3m
- 2000/2001 - £5.2m
- 2001/2002 - £5.9m
- 2002/2003 - £23.2m
- 2003/2004 - £25.1m
- 2004/2005 - £25.2m
- 2005/2006 - £30.9m
- 2006/2007 - £13.2m
- 2007/2008 - £16.1m
- 2008/2009 - £28.4m
- 2009/2010 - £28.1m
- 2010/2011 – £24.3m
- 2011/2012 – £23.5m
- 2012/2013 – £23.9m
- 2013/2014 – £22.6m
- 2014/2015 – £20.9m
- 2015/2016 – £20.9m