Bovine Tuberculosis

(asked on 3rd July 2014) - 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 veterinary surgeons are qualified to undertake bovine tuberculosis testing in each NUTS-1 region of England.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 8th July 2014

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.

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