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Bovine TB

Ministerial statement on Monday, 7 July 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Hilary Benn.
Statement on Bovine TB.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
478 c1153-68 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Daniel Kawczynski | 478 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) As chairman of the all-party group on dairy farmers, I am absolutely devastated by the Secretary of ...
James Paice | 478 c1168 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, before I responded to the statement, I omitted to remind hon. Memb...

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Hilary Benn | 478 c1168 (Link to this contribution) I would like to know that, too, but I take seriously my responsibility to come and report first to t...
Nigel Evans | 478 c1168 (Link to this contribution) We will be having an inquiry into that, then, won't we? The Secretary of State's decision has been ...
Speaker | 478 c1168 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) wants to make a point.
Peter Soulsby | 478 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's measured statement. It is clear that he has considered the overwh...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1163 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the suffering of badgers. As he will be aware, section 6 of the Prote...
Anthony Steen | 478 c1164 (Link to this contribution) Devon has been savagely hit by this disease. Many thousands of animals have been destroyed and multi...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1163-4 (Link to this contribution) Nobody wants to cull any animals unless it is necessary. At the moment, the culling of cattle is an ...
David Heath | 478 c1163 (Link to this contribution) There will indeed be a great deal of anger among people in the farming communities in the west count...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I accept entirely the difficulty faced in Devon and other hot-spot areas, and I recognise the frustr...
Lord Benyon | 478 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I refer hon. Members to my entry in the register. What will be the statistical measure of the succe...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1164 (Link to this contribution) We need to use all the measures that will be effective, including the cattle controls to which my ho...
Eric Martlew | 478 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on making the decision, because it must have been very temptin...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) I have looked at all the evidence. Clearly, the circumstances in the Republic of Ireland are differe...
Baroness Browning | 478 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Having been a member of the Government who set up the original Krebs inquiry, I was disappointed tha...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1161 (Link to this contribution) On my hon. Friend's last point, the Welsh Assembly Government have announced that a cull in one area...
Charlotte Atkins | 478 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Representing as I do a hot-spot area, I know that many farmers will be disappointed by this decision...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1162-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for acknowledging that the decision that I have taken is based on the science...
Nick Palmer | 478 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for receiving representations from many of us with concerns on the is...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I am the first to understand how the decision will be received by those who think that culling is th...
Stephen O'Brien | 478 c1162 (Link to this contribution) Words will not describe the despair of the farmers in Eddisbury and Cheshire at the uncharacteristic...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1162 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend will believe me when I say that the easiest decision that I could have...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) On the last point, we would have to argue our case, and I am sure that the hon. Lady would join me a...
Ann Winterton | 478 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) The dairy farmers in Cheshire to whom I spoke on Saturday were disappointed and angry at the lack of...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1167 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to say to my hon. Friend that I personally undertake to put that, and all the other sugge...
David Leslie Taylor | 478 c1167 (Link to this contribution) Having served on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee since its inception, I am in a re...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to come back to the House on any occasion to report on the progress made in fighting bovi...
Angela C Smith | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's announcement that the proposed cull will not be going ahead. I welcome, too, the S...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to do so. I spend quite a lot of my time meeting farmers, and I am very willing to ...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Liddell at your service. Will the Secretary of State accept that the ma...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1166 (Link to this contribution) Because, in the end, I have made a judgment about the likelihood that such a cull could be successfu...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 478 c1166 (Link to this contribution) Although the Secretary of State is a very reasonable man, farmers in Gloucestershire, where the hot-...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1166 (Link to this contribution) The legal position is extremely clear under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. I very much hope tha...
Roger Williams | 478 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I should like to thank the Secretary of State for giving me an early sight of his statement. I also ...
David Drew | 478 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for listening to the totality of the ISG report, rather than picking pa...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his words, although I must point out that I have not ignored anyone's opi...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1160-1 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, I do not accept that characterisation of my decision...
Gavin Strang | 478 c1158, (corrigendum) 1390;478 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and his response to the Select Committee report. Do...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend about the impact of the disease and the effect it has on the farme...
Michael Jack | 478 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State and the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman for their kind words about t...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I know there will be anger—indeed, I referred to that in my statement—because I know how strongly lo...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) First, I am happy to confirm that the statement represents the Government's policy on what we should...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1153-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about the Government's plans for tackling b...
James Paice | 478 c1155-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and for allowing us prior sight of it. I also cong...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1168 (Link to this contribution) A number of adjectives could be used to describe the decision that I have reached. I have thought lo...
Paul Flynn | 478 c1164 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is to be warmly congratulated on his courageous decision, which is evidence-b...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) May I invite the Secretary of State to emphasise that his statement today was not about whether we s...
Anne Snelgrove | 478 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with my right hon. Friend, who has had to make a very difficult decision. He has made t...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman when he describes the situation as very sad, and I am sorry to hear ...
Geoffrey Cox | 478 c1160 (Link to this contribution) Farmers in the intensely infected area of Devonshire that I represent will regard this decision as a...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1166 (Link to this contribution) That was one factor that I was bound to take into account in reaching my decision, because there are...
Hilary Benn | 478 c1165 (Link to this contribution) For England, the number of cattle slaughtered in 2007 was 19,800. The previous year it was 16,000; t...
Subjects
Badgers
Cattle
Finance
Disease control
Vaccination
Bovine tuberculosis
Government responses
Contains statistics
Yes
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