Bovine Tuberculosis: Testing
(asked on 31st October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) holdings were tested for bovine tuberculosis, (b) animals were tested in each of those holdings and (c) of those animals tested positive using the interferon gamma test in each county of England in 2017.
The total number of bovine tuberculosis skin tests and animals skin tested by county in 2017 can be found in the statistical datasets published in the National bTB Statistics on GOV.UK and can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain
The table below lists a) number of holdings gamma tested per county, b) number of gamma samples by county and c) gamma positive cattle per county in 2017.
English counties | a) Number of holdings gamma tested per county | b) Number of gamma samples by county | c) Gamma-positives per county |
Northern Somerset & South Gloucestershire (AVON) | 5 | 287 | 33 |
Cornwall (and Isles of Scilly) | 8 | 2588 | 295 |
Devon | 23 | 6384 | 673 |
Dorset | 17 | 6080 | 533 |
Gloucestershire | 7 | 585 | 58 |
Herefordshire | 3 | 290 | 44 |
Shropshire | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Staffordshire | 2 | 587 | 20 |
Somerset excl North | 13 | 1793 | 156 |
Wiltshire | 5 | 401 | 8 |
Worcestershire | 1 | 126 | 2 |
West Midlands | 2 | 129 | 6 |
Berkshire | 22 | 4149 | 215 |
Buckinghamshire | 12 | 3619 | 153 |
Hampshire | 12 | 1326 | 42 |
Leicestershire and Rutland | 23 | 3414 | 188 |
Northamptonshire | 7 | 784 | 31 |
Nottinghamshire | 1 | 1220 | 44 |
Cheshire | 89 | 25534 | 939 |
Derbyshire | 4 | 674 | 64 |
East Sussex | 6 | 654 | 11 |
Oxfordshire | 48 | 17184 | 805 |
Warwickshire | 13 | 3060 | 107 |
Bedfordshire | 3 | 696 | 47 |
Cambridgeshire | 1 | 71 | 1 |
Cumbria | 14 | 6718 | 203 |
Durham | 1 | 347 | 14 |
Essex | 3 | 430 | 8 |
Greater London and Greater London East | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greater Manchester | 2 | 180 | 1 |
Hertfordshire | 1 | 94 | 16 |
Isle of Wight | 1 | 731 | 70 |
Kent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lancashire | 4 | 3244 | 60 |
Lincolnshire | 1 | 332 | 16 |
Merseyside | 2 | 44 | 9 |
Northumberland (and Tyne and Wear) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norfolk | 2 | 209 | 8 |
Surrey | 2 | 370 | 12 |
Suffolk | 1 | 276 | 25 |
West Sussex | 4 | 2695 | 125 |
Yorkshire (and Cleveland) | 3 | 737 | 42 |