Cattle: Diseases

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cattle have been culled as a result of contracting (a) bovine tuberculosis and (b) other diseases in (i) Cornwall, (ii) the South West and (iii) England in each of the last 10 years.

Answer

The following table displays the number of reactors slaughtered as a consequence of bovine tuberculosis in each of the last 10 years.

	Cornwall	South West Region (GO)¹	England
2009	3,426	15,770	24,500
2008	3,585	16,570	26,038
2007	2,303	11,988	18,543
2006	1,662	9,209	14,585
2005	3,339	14,581	20,145
2004	2,338	10,466	15,093
2003	2,314	10,461	15,120
2002	2,616	10,608	15,482
2001	702	2,452	3,804
2000	1,105	4,529	7,073
¹ The South West Government Office region includes; Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, the Isles of Scilly, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Notes:
1. Data from Vetnet is produced three months in arrears and the latest report available is for December 2009. Therefore data cannot be provided for the last three months.
2. Data from Vetnet is provisional and subject to change as more data becomes available.
Source:
Vetnet

The following table shows the number of cattle killed on suspicion of being affected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in England in each of the last 10 years.

	England	South West Region	Cornwall
2009	12	6	4
2008	28	14	3
2007	53	25	5
2006	96	38	6
2005	122	53	18
2004	258	96	22
2003	340	150	39
2002	687	238	60
2001	1,009	333	64
2000	1,561	539	101
Source:
Veterinary Laboratories Agency's BSE Database

For the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak of 2001, the number of cattle culled as a result of contracting FMD during 2001 was 1,407 in Cornwall, 86,630 in the South West and 581,802 in England.For the FMD outbreak of 2007, no cattle were culled in Cornwall or the South West during 2007 as a result of contracting the disease, but 982 cattle were culled in England.For the Bluetongue outbreak of 2007, no cattle were culled in Cornwall or the South West during 2007 as a result of contracting the disease, but five cows were culled in England.The above figures were sourced from Animal Health.