Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 25th September 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 much her Department spent from the public purse on the badger cull in each of the last five years.
Bovine TB is one of the greatest animal health threats to the UK and the disease costs the public over £100million a year, with the cost to the farming industry around £50m a year. Badger control costs to Government in each of the last five years are as follows (to the nearest thousand pounds):
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Licensing and compliance monitoring | £1,036,000 | £1,003,000 | £1,284,000 | £1,289,000 | £1,312,000 |
Humaneness monitoring, including post mortems | £1,515,000 | £154,000 | £392,000 | £506,000 | £352,000 |
Efficacy monitoring | £17,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Advice and assessments | £294,000 | £460,000 | £646,000 | £728,000 | £410,000 |
Other costs, including equipment | £205,000 | £162,000 | £53,000 | £49,000 | £1,000 |
Total | £3,067,000 | £1,779,000 | £2,375,000 | £2,572,000 | £2,075,000 |
Badger control policing costs to Government in each of the last five years are as follows (to the nearest thousand pounds):
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Policing | £1,392,000 | £1,809,000 | £3,030,000 | £4,047,000 | £3,237,000 |
Further information can be found on gov.uk at the following link: www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-government-badger-control-costs.