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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will list the number of pedigree cattle sold in each month since the scheme began that determined the compensation offered to farmers with cows testing positive for TB.

The attached spreadsheet contains the rolling six month numbers of pedigree calved cows, used to support TB table valuations, since the adoption of the current compensation categories in July 2012. Categories included are:

Beef sired Pedigree Female 24 - 36 months calved

Beef sired Pedigree Female > 36 months calved

Dairy sired Pedigree Female 18 - 36 months calved

Dairy sired Pedigree Female 36 - 84 months calved

Dairy sired Pedigree Female > 84 months calved

Data between 2006 and 2012 is not available in this format.