Bovine Tuberculosis

EDM number 81 in 2008-09, proposed by James Paice on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Animal diseases.

That this House notes with concern that since 1997 bovine tuberculosis has cost the taxpayer well in excess of £600 million and resulted in the slaughter of over 200,000 cattle; notes that it is likely a record total approaching 40,000 head will be slaughtered in 2008; 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 43 MPs.