Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much compensation has been paid to owners of pedigree cattle testing positive for bovine TB i each month since that scheme began.

The attached table shows the total amount of compensation paid to keepers in England for pedigree animals compulsorily slaughtered for bTB control purposes in each month since February 2006, when the current scheme began. Please note that the months detailed in the table reflect when the animals were slaughtered, which may not always correspond to the date compensation payments were made.