Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB)

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Services

• 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.

• Approved finishing units for cattle: application

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

• TB restricted cattle: declare cleansing and disinfection in England

  Form to declare that you've cleansed and disinfected, to restore officially TB free status in England.

• Approved bovine TB isolation unit: application

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

• Approved Finishing Unit (Enhanced) with grazing for cattle: application

  Forms to register Approved Finishing Units (Enhanced) with grazing (AFUE) for TB-restricted cattle in England.

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Guidance and regulation

• Bovine TB: get your cattle tested in England
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 March 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Bovine TB testing intervals, 2020
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 September 2020
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Bovine TB: how to spot and report the disease
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Pre-movement and post-movement bovine TB testing in Great Britain
  • Guidance
  • 17 December 2018
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Controlled shooting of badgers in the field under licence to prevent the spread of bovine TB in cattle
  • Guidance
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England

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News and communications

7 September 2020 — Correspondence

Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2020

Natural England

• 2020 badger control licences published
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
  • News story
• Government sets out next phase of strategy to combat bovine tuberculosis
  • 5 March 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Press release
• Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2019
  • 11 September 2019
  • Natural England
  • Correspondence
• Bovine TB: Direction on licensing of badger control operations in Derbyshire
  • 6 September 2019
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Bovine TB: badger control policy value for money analysis
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Research
• Bovine TB: surveillance in wildlife in England
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Research
• Bovine TB: epidemiology reports, 2018
  • 23 June 2020
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Bovine TB: epidemiology reports, 2019
  • 27 March 2020
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Bovine TB epidemiology and surveillance in Great Britain, 2018
  • 5 November 2019
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Bovine TB: badger vaccination and culling in England’s Edge Areas
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 26 June 2020
• Bovine TB: government badger control costs
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be controlled in 2020
  • 7 September 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Guidance to Natural England: preventing spread of bovine TB
  • 17 August 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Bovine TB: summary of badger control monitoring during 2019
  • 27 March 2020
  • Natural England
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Bovine TB: compensation value tables
  • 28 August 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• AHWBE: register of interests
  • 8 June 2020
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• Information on bTB (Kimblewick Hunt)
  • 19 February 2019
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release
• Bovine TB testing in cattle
  • 13 April 2016
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release
• Culled badger numbers 1975 to 1998
  • 10 June 2015
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
2. Animal & Plant Health Agency
3. Public Health England
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. RDPE Network

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