Cattle: Testing
(asked on 24th November 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 spent on annual testing of cattle in the high risk, edge and low risk areas in each of the last three years.
These are the figures currently available for annual testing in England for the three areas:
| Edge | High Risk | Low Risk |
April 2016 to 20 Oct 2016 | £745,617 | £1,261,432 | £15,928 |
May 2015 to March 2016 | £1,169,118 | £2,001,883 | £35,589 |
The total does not include any testing undertaken by Official Veterinarians in the first few months of year 2015-2016. Testing prior to year 2015-2016 is not available at the moment as the Veterinary Delivery Partners only started operating in May 2015. The testing undertaken by Official Veterinarians up to a point in 2015 is not readily available.