Hansard

Bovine Tuberculosis

Volume 705: debated on Friday 14 November 2008

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the 42 cats reported in the Daily Telegraph on 18 October as being confirmed between 2005 and 2007 as having bovine tuberculosis were based in rural areas; and, of those not, how many were from towns and how many from cities. [HL5946]

The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change & Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)

We are unable to provide the precise breakdown requested because in some cases we do not have the address of some of the owners of the cats that were confirmed with bovine TB; we only have the address of the private veterinary practice that submitted the samples where TB was suspected, as they are required to do under TB legislation. Most of the private veterinary practices that submitted the samples were from towns.