Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(asked on 7th July 2022) - View Source
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 make an estimate of the number of cattle that were slaughtered for the purpose of eradicating bovine tuberculosis in each financial year since 2019-20.
This question was answered on 15th July 2022
The number of cattle slaughtered for bovine tuberculosis control purposes is published on gov.uk and can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb.
The number of cattle slaughtered in England from the 2019/2020 financial year onwards is as follows:
Financial year | Number of cattle slaughtered |
2019/2020 | 30,137 |
2020/2021 | 28,397 |
2021/2022 | 26,448 |