Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates One of the challenges of TB is that it is a bacterial disease, and it is notoriously hard to get vaccines to work in that context, whereas w
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates It is a real pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I congratulate all the petitioners.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates I was going to return to that matter later, but as the hon. Gentleman has raised it I can deal with it now.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates Obviously the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak had an impact, but my point is that there was a loss of 10 years when the science had been clear
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates We publish the disease surveillance data annually in August. To pick up on the point that the hon.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates The issue was looked at extensively during the randomised badger culling trials, and we know that in the high-risk area, where there is a st
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates It was always recognised that the trials did not have controls alongside them in a scientific way.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates The full benefits of that RBCT trial presented themselves in the years after the report was concluded, as is now widely accepted.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates I was moving on to that. Data on bovine TV incidence in the cull areas are published annually.
Badger Culling - [Mr Gary Streeter in the Chair] | Westminster Hall debates I am afraid I have given way generously. I will press on because I believe we may have a Division shortly. My hon.
