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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. 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.

  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. Approved TB isolation unit: application

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

  5. Approved finishing units for cattle: application

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

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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. Bovine TB testing intervals, 2020
    • Detailed guide
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  4. Pre-movement and post-movement TB testing of cattle in Great Britain
    • Guidance
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  5. Finishing units for cattle: approved premises
    • Guidance
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
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News and communications

Correspondence

Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2019

Natural England

  1. Bovine TB: Direction on licensing of badger control operations in Derbyshire
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
    • Correspondence
  2. Bovine TB: authorisation for supplementary badger control in 2019
    • Natural England
    • Correspondence
  3. New incentives for farmers to strengthen biosecurity on bovine TB
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Press release
  4. Bovine TB: authorisation for badger control in 2018
    • Natural England
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Bovine TB epidemiology and surveillance in Great Britain, 2018
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  2. Bovine TB: surveillance in wildlife in England
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
  3. Bovine TB: incidence of TB in cattle in licenced badger control areas in 2013 to 2018
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  4. Bovine TB: badger control policy value for money analysis
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Research
  5. Bovine TB: epidemiology reports, 2018
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Bovine TB: comment on supplementary badger control licence applications or expressions of interest March 2019
    • Natural England
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 03 April 2019
  2. Bovine TB: comment on badger control licence applications or expressions of interest June 2018
    • Natural England
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 18 June 2018
  3. Bovine TB: government badger control costs
    • 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 2019
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  5. Bovine TB: summary of badger control monitoring during 2018
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
    • 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. Information on bTB (Kimblewick Hunt)
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  3. AHWBE: register of interests
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Transparency
  4. Bovine TB testing in cattle
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
  5. Culled badger numbers 1975 to 1998
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Foi release
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