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Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Asked by Carla LockhartDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 27 January 2025UIN 24494

The question

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.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

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 possible to break down the amount spent, by individual TB risk area.

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