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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 TB isolation unit: application

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

• 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.

• Approved finishing units for cattle: application

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

• 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.

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Guidance and regulation

• 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

• Bovine TB: get your cattle tested in England

  Detailed guide

  14 June 2018

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency

• Pre-movement and post-movement TB testing of cattle in Great Britain

  Guidance

  29 September 2017

  Animal and Plant Health Agency

• How to deal with TB in non-bovine animals
  • Detailed guide
  • 2 January 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
• TB isolation units for cattle: conditions of approval and operation
  • Guidance
  • 15 November 2016
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency

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News and communications

13 September 2018 — 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
   • 13 September 2018
   • Natural England
   • Correspondence
2. New bovine TB service launched for farmers in England
   • 4 October 2017
   • 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
   • 11 September 2017
   • Natural England
   • Correspondence
4. Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2017
   • 11 September 2017
   • Natural England
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Bovine TB: incidence of TB in cattle in licenced badger control areas in 2013 to 2017
  • 13 September 2018
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Bovine TB epidemiology and surveillance in Great Britain, 2017
  • 13 September 2018
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Bovine TB: badger control policy value for money analysis
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Research
• Bovine TB surveillance in Great Britain, 2013
  • 24 May 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research
• Bovine TB: analysis of the effect of badger vaccination on incidence of TB in cattle
  • 30 August 2016
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Bovine TB Strategy review 2018: call for evidence 24 August 2018

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 31 May 2018

• Bovine TB: introducing licensed badger controls in the Low Risk Area of England 24 August 2018

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 15 April 2018

• Bovine TB: comment on badger control licence applications or expressions of interest June 2018 5 June 2018

  Natural England

  Closed consultation

  Date closed 18 June 2018

• Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be controlled in 2018
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Bovine TB: government badger control costs
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Bovine TB: compensation value tables
  • 28 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• AHWBE: register of interests
  • 20 March 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• Culled badger numbers 1975 to 1998
  • 10 June 2015
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release
• Incidence of TB in cattle reactors in 2011, 2012 and 2013
  • 17 February 2015
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Foi release
• Legal costs around the 2 judicial reviews on the badger cull
  • 3 February 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. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Public Health England
5. RDPE Network

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