From my meetings with stakeholders, including groups of farmers in my constituency, kindly organised by the FUW and the NFU, but also meetings that I’ve held with animal welfare organisations, I know that the adoption of a balanced and bespoke approach to tackling bovine TB, outlined in the Cabinet Secretary’s statement, will be of reassurance to them. We know that 95 per cent of infection is estimated to be cattle to cattle. So, the Welsh Government’s focus on strengthened cattle controls is indeed the correct one.

I have two questions. Research recently published by Professor Rosie Woodroffe of the Zoological Society of London in August suggested that contamination passes through infected pasture and dung. This has repercussions for farming practices like slurry spreading. What assessment has the Welsh Government given to this evidence in determining its approach? Secondly, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food data collected over a 25-year period suggested that some types of animal, including fallow deer and farm cats, had a higher prevalence of TB than badgers. How will the Welsh Government consider these possible reservoirs of the disease in its approach?