Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made by the Animal and Health Plant Agency of the threat to the llama population in England from tuberculosis; and how many animals have been tested under the Tuberculosis (Deer and Camelid) (England) Order 2014.

Llamas, like most mammals, are susceptible to infection with Mycobacterium bovis (the bovine TB bacterium) and can develop TB if exposed to the bacterium on the farm environment, or through close contact with other TB-infected camelids that may unknowingly be brought into a herd.

Llamas are incidental spill-over hosts of the TB bacterium and not considered a significant reservoir of infection for cattle in GB.

The TB threat to the British llama population is greatest in the Southwest of England, Midlands and parts of Wales, i.e. in areas with a high endemic prevalence of infection in cattle and badgers. This is where the vast majority of laboratory-confirmed cases of TB in llamas have been detected.

The numbers of TB tests conducted on camelids is available on GOV.UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/other-tb-statistics

These official statistics for camelids include both llamas and alpacas.