To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will review the six-day standstill rule. (187978)

We have no plans to review the six day standstill rule which has the support of the industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make it his policy to allow animals subject to the six-day rule to be quarantined on a separate part of the farm. (188015)

One of Bill Madder's recommendations in the Review of Livestock Movements Controls was: that animals which had spent six days in an approved isolation unit should be exempted from any standstill on the wider holding. Implementing this recommendation requires amending legislation, which is currently being planned.