Lessons Learned from Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak I - Hansard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was of the 2001 inquiry into Foot and Mouth disease. (143709)

There were two independent inquiries into the 2001 Foot and Mouth Crisis: a Lessons Learned Inquiry, chaired by Dr. Iain Anderson, and a scientific review by the Royal Society, chaired by Sir Brian Follett. The costs of the inquiries were as follows:

	£
Royal Society Inquiry	425,000
Anderson Inquiry	526,000
DEFRA/MAFF Inquiry Liaison Unit	290,000
Treasury Solicitor	13,787
Total	1,254,787

Hansard

Lessons Learned from Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Inquiry

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007