PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (10 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government has spent in England on (a) cattle testing for TB, (b) compensation as a result of a test for bovine TB, (c) surveillance activity associated with bovine TB by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency and Animal Plant Health Agency, (d) Tuberculin supply and (e) research connected to bovine TB in each year since 2010-11; and what the total expenditure was on measures to prevent bovine TB in each such year.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The costs of TB testing are included in the overall sum delegated to the Animal and Plant Health Agency for the delivery of bovine TB controls in England which is given in the table below.

TB Expenditure	£/million	£/million	£/million	£/million
	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14
APHA expenditure, including field operations and TB testing	64.1	67.1	58.3	67.9
APHA TB surveillance: laboratory and science costs	3.9	3.1	3.0	3.3
TB Cattle compensation (net of salvage receipts)	24.3	23.5	23.9	22.6
Cost of tuberculin purchase	2.2	2.6	2.8	2.5
TB R&D	6.9	7.9	8.0	8.9

Foot note: - This data was extracted from the Defra Oracle Financial system on 11 November 2015 and does not take account of EU receipts.

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
16 November 2015