Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 20th January 2016) - 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 much compensation has been paid to farmers for loss of cattle in badger cull areas (a) in each of the three years before that cull started and (b) since that cull started.
The number of TB test reactor cattle removed in the Gloucestershire and Somerset badger control areas, in the three years prior to the start of the badger removal and in the first year thereafter, are shown in the following table. This information, up to 2013, is in the Bovine TB Surveillance Report for England 2014, which was published on www.gov.uk in August 2015. We plan to publish equivalent information in summer 2016 and 2017 respectively, for the badger control areas in 2014 and 2015.
Area | Time period (in relation to cull) | Reactor numbers |
Somerset | 2010 - Third year before | 105 |
2011 - Second year before | 279 | |
2012 - First year before | 246 | |
2013 - Year 1 of cull | 208 | |
Gloucestershire | 2010 - Third year before | 252 |
2011 - Second year before | 196 | |
2012 - First year before | 91 | |
2013 - Year 1 of cull | 161 |
Data on the actual compensation paid for the loss of cattle could only be provided now at a disproportionate cost. The estimates in the following table are based on the numbers above and current average compensation rates.
Area | Time period (in relation to cull) | Estimate of compensation paid |
Somerset | 2010 - Third year before | £120,900 |
2011 - Second year before | £321,260 | |
2012 - First year before | £283,260 | |
2013 - Year 1 of cull | £239,510 | |
Gloucestershire | 2010 - Third year before | £290,170 |
2011 - Second year before | £225,690 | |
2012 - First year before | £104,780 | |
2013 - Year 1 of cull | £185,390 |
Equivalent figures for the Dorset badger control area and for the second and third years in the Somerset and Gloucestershire badger control areas could only be provided at a disproportionate cost and are not shown here.