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Sets out the disease control measures we would consider if African or classical swine fever was suspected or confirmed in pigs.
Introduction Purpose of document This document describes how government…
Outlining plans for a world leading science centre at Weybridge, to protect people and animals from disease outbreaks.
The government will deliver a National Biosecurity Centre - a world…
Sets out the government's approach to calculating routine herd testing frequency in England.
1. Routine surveillance TB testing intervals are based on the regional…
What we are doing to reduce the risks from avian influenza (bird flu) in wild birds in England and Wales.
Consultation on whether England and Wales should change their Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) related livestock feed controls.
Seeking views on a proposed ban on keeping laying hens, pullets and breeder layers in cages.
Seeking views on proposed changes to the methods used for lamb castration and tail docking.
Advice to Natural England on setting the minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be culled in licensed areas in 2025.
Information on the government badger control costs for 2024 and previous years.
This contingency plan describes how the government will manage an outbreak or incident of exotic notifiable disease of animals in England.
The Pathway will push forward and support the gradual and continual improvement in farm animal health and welfare.
An update to the 2018 bovine tuberculosis strategy review led by Professor Sir Charles Godfray.
The powers, criteria and procedures the Secretary of State has to follow in considering pre-emptive (firebreak) culling in managing an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD).
How the government would manage suspect cases and outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Great Britain.
Information and data on operations to control bovine tuberculosis in parts of England in 2024.
The UK Chief Veterinary Officer’s advice on early termination intensive cull licences issued in 2021 and 2022 after 2 or 3 years.
Seeking views on proposals to make it compulsory for bird keepers in Great Britain to register their birds.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Find out how to comment on badger control in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, and Warwickshire.
Find out how to comment on badger control in Cumbria.
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