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Foot And Mouth

Volume 407: debated on Monday 16 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when foot and mouth disease simulation exercises have taken place in each animal health divisional office area in each of the last five years. [118573]

Foot and mouth disease exercises have taken place in Animal Health Division Offices as shown in the table. Exercises focused on other diseases have also taken place over the same period. In addition the readiness of these offices to deal with an outbreak of exotic disease was developed and tested during the outbreak of classical swine fever in 2000 and foot and mouth disease in 2001 and in dealing with suspect cases over the whole period.

England199819992000200120022003
Bury St. Edmunds111
Carlisle3
Chelmsford1
Exeter1
Gloucester1
Leeds13
Leicester311
Lincoln1
Newcastle11112
Preston1
Reading1
Reigate11
Stafford
Taunton11
Truro1
Worcester1124
Scotland
Ayr11
Galashiels11
Inverness112
Inverurie11
Perth11
Wales
Caernarvon11
Cardiff11
Carmarthen1
Total97631514
1 Newcastle AHDO was not established until August 2002