To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average amount of time was between the reporting of an initial test for bovine tuberculosis as inconclusive and re-testing in each of the last five years. (280082)

Animal health systems are not able to readily provide complete and accurate data in the format requested. However, the average number of days taken to retest inconclusive TB reactors for the last five years is as follows: