The year after Labour came to power, fewer than 600 cattle were slaughtered in Devon. This year, we are well on course for more than 6,000 to be slaughtered. Bovine TB is spreading remorselessly across the UK and many areas of the country will no longer be disease free unless we take action, so I welcome the Secretary of State's statement today. However, does she not share the concerns of farmers in my constituency who feel that they could be targeted by violent activists? Will she assure them that those who carry out this very difficult task will have their anonymity protected?
Bovine TB
Proceeding contribution from
Sarah Wollaston
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 14 December 2011.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Bovine TB.
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