Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 29th January 2019) - 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 interferon gamma tests were conducted on herds in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) Somerset in each year since 2010; and how many cattle in each of those herds tested positive.
In this instance, ‘herd’ has been interpreted to mean ‘holding’ (County Parish Holding - CPH)’.The number of holdings in Gloucestershire and Somerset that were subject to interferon gamma testing is set out below. This includes the number of samples that were positive.
| Gloucestershire (Excl South) | Avon (North Somerset & S Glouc) | Somerset (excl North) | |||
| Samples tested | Samples Positive | Samples tested | Samples Positive | Samples tested | Samples Positive |
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2010 | 0 | 0 | 611 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 164 | 14 | 27 | 1 | 31 | 5 |
2013 | 62 | 3 | 36 | 5 | 1824 | 355 |
2014 | 60 | 5 | 1174 | 291 | 266 | 11 |
2015 | 433 | 57 | 783 | 59 | 117 | 5 |
2016 | 0 | 0 | 1367 | 151 | 1246 | 76 |
2017 | 584 | 58 | 175 | 31 | 1590 | 109 |
2018 | 7830 | 333 | 1402 | 114 | 6781 | 535 |