Question follow-through · 24494
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to help tackle bovine TB outbreaks in areas of high incidence in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to help tackle bovine TB outbreaks in areas of high incidence in each of the last five years.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
Policy on bovine TB is devolved to governments in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In England, in the last five years, my department has spent approximately £100 million per year on disease control measures tackling bovine TB. It is not poss...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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