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Bovine Tuberculosis

Volume 508: debated on Monday 22 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cases of bovine tuberculosis were recorded in (a) West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, (b) Cornwall, (c) the South West and (d) England in each of the last 10 years. (322729)

We are unable to give data for areas smaller than county level due to data protection reasons. These reasons include identification of individual herds. We are therefore unable to provide data for West Cornwall. However, we can confirm that there have been no cases of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the Isles of Scilly during the last 10 years. The following table shows the number of cases of bTB in Cornwall, the South West, and England in each of the last 10 years.

Cornwall

South-west (GO region)1

England

2009

475

2,070

3,350

2008

552

2,366

3,746

2007

416

2,038

3,183

2006

349

1,667

2,721

2005

429

1,920

2,904

2004

397

1,745

2,612

2003

371

1,679

2,516

2002

453

1,788

2,622

2001

97

374

583

2000

228

1,017

1,423

1 The south-west Government office region includes; Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, the Isles of Scilly, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Notes:

1. Data from VetNet are produced three months in arrears and the latest report available is for December 2009. Therefore data cannot be provided for the last three months.

2. Data from VetNet are provisional and subject to change as more data become available.

Source:

VetNet