Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many veterinary surgeons are qualified to undertake bovine tuberculosis testing in each NUTS-1 region of England.
The number of Official Veterinarians qualified to undertake TB skin tests are:
Midlands – 516
North – 535
South East – 325
South West – 686
Wales – 468
Scotland – 438
TOTAL – 2968
Practices – 607
NUTS-1 refers to the old local government regions. We do not record data on this basis.