Q. Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

(asked on 29th January 2019) - View Source

Questioner

David Drew
(Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)

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 in each herd in Dorset in each year since 2012; how many positive cattle in each herd tested positive.

Answered by

George Eustice

This question was answered on 5th February 2019

The number of County Parish Holdings (CPH) in Dorset that have been subject to interferon gamma testing since 2012 is set out below. This includes the number of samples that were positive.

Year	Individual CPHs	Samples tested	Samples Positive
2012 – 2 CPHs tested in total
	1	139	21
	2	66	19
2013 – 3 CPHs tested in total
	1	145	4
	2	253	4
	3	41	4
2014 – 1 CPH tested in total
2014	1	46	11
2015	0
2016	0
2017 – 15 CPHs tested in total
	1	360	33
	2	159	13
	3	844	36
	4	970	120
	5	400	36
	6	532	24
	7	237	5
	8	320	50
	9	634	56
	10	415	14
	11	442	39
	12	332	83
	13	9	1
	14	38	0
	15	217	7
2018 – 31 CPHs tested in total
	1	53	4
	2	45	3
	3	43	1
	4	395	37
	5	205	13
	6	386	9
	7	1279	76
	8	1155	54
	9	87	5
	10	804	87
	11	586	32
	12	184	11
	13	124	0
	14	320	2
	15	348	28
	16	217	2
	17	35	0
	18	805	48
	19	330	20
	20	636	57
	21	4284	186
	22	305	23
	23	1513	68
	24	171	10
	25	305	12
	26	217	19
	27	356	52
	28	144	11
	29	371	12
	30	517	22
	31	1871	97

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