Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 20 September 2016.
One of the things that I know about England, as I remember, during the Krebs tests, was that things worsened because of the fact that they were culling the badgers from the centre outwards. Of course, with perturbation, the disease was spreading because of that. I know that many people think that there’s an easy solution to TB and that if you cull, eradicate or get rid of the badgers, then you’d eradicate TB. It's more complicated than that. I recall sitting on the committe and hearing the evidence, which demonstrated that it’s much more complicated and that there is not one answer. However, having said that, we’ve seen a reduction, which is to be welcomed, in the number of stock that are being tested positive with TB. That’s something that we wish to see continuing.