Bovine Tuberculosis

EDM number 10 in 2007-08, proposed by James Paice on 06/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Animal diseases and Wildlife.

That this House notes with concern that since 1997 bovine tuberculosis has cost the taxpayer £500 million and resulted in the slaughter of over 160,000 cattle; deplores the lack of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the disease; believes that a package of measures is required which addresses both cattle-to-cattle transmission and the reservoir of infection in wildlife; urges the urgent trialling of vaccines and the polymerase chain reaction test to identify live vectors of the disease; and calls on the Government to take the practical measures necessary to reduce the toll of bovine TB on wildlife, cattle and the British farming industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.