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Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB)

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Services

  1. TB restricted cattle: application for movement licence in England

    Form to apply for a licence to move TB restricted cattle to or from holdings in England.

  2. Approved finishing units for cattle: application

    Forms to register approved finishing units (AFU) for TB restricted cattle in England and Wales.

  3. Additional CPH for an officially TB free cattle business: application

    Form and conditions to apply for additional County Parish Holding numbers for cattle businesses which are officially TB free.

  4. Licensed finishing units for cattle: application

    Forms to register a licensed finishing unit (LFU) in England and in Wales for the sourcing of cattle for officially TB free herds.

  5. Approved TB isolation unit: application

    Form and schedule of conditions for the approval of a TB isolation unit.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Bovine TB: how to spot and report the disease
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  2. Bovine TB: get your cattle tested in England
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  3. Pre-movement and post-movement TB testing of cattle in Great Britain
    • Guidance
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  4. How to deal with TB in non-bovine animals
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  5. What happens if TB is identified in your herd in Scotland and Wales
    • Guidance
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
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News and communications

Press release

New data shows drop in bovine TB as further measures to fight disease unveiled

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England

  1. Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2018
    • Natural England
    • Correspondence
  2. New bovine TB service launched for farmers in England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Development Programme for England Network, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • News story
  3. Bovine TB: authorisation for supplementary badger control in 2017
    • Natural England
    • Correspondence
  4. Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2017
    • Natural England
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Bovine TB: incidence of TB in cattle in licenced badger control areas in 2013 to 2017
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  2. Bovine TB epidemiology and surveillance in Great Britain, 2017
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  3. Bovine TB: badger control policy value for money analysis
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
  4. Bovine TB surveillance in Great Britain, 2013
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  5. Bovine TB: analysis of the effect of badger vaccination on incidence of TB in cattle
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Bovine TB: Extending the use of Approved Tuberculin Testers (ATTs) to perform skin tests on cattle in England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 07 September 2018
  2. Bovine TB Strategy review 2018: call for evidence
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 31 May 2018
  3. A strategy for achieving Bovine Tuberculosis Free Status for England: 2018 review
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  4. Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be controlled in 2018
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  5. Bovine TB: government badger control costs
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Bovine TB: compensation value tables
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Transparency
  2. AHWBE: register of interests
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Transparency
  3. Culled badger numbers 1975 to 1998
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  4. Incidence of TB in cattle reactors in 2011, 2012 and 2013
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  5. Legal costs around the 2 judicial reviews on the badger cull
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
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