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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support farmers whose livestock are affected by bovine tuberculosis outbreaks in a) Audley, b) Newcastle-under-Lyme and c) Staffordshire.

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has a devastating impact on farming communities. That is why the Government is working with farmers and scientists to co-design a new bovine TB strategy, expected in the coming weeks, to deliver the step change needed to achieve disease freedom by 2038.

I also refer to the reply given on 16 April, PQ UIN 125856, which sets out some of the further support available to farmers, including those in Audley, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire, experiencing a TB breakdown in their herd.