Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 22 March 2017.
Bovine TB is a devolved issue and hunting with dogs remains reserved. However, I’m sure that the Counsel General will have seen the recent report by the League Against Cruel Sports, finding that there was bovine TB in a pack of hounds in Buckinghamshire, and that this resulted in about 40 hounds being put down due to the risk of the dogs spreading the disease to cattle. Does the Counsel General share my concern that the Welsh Government would be unable to legislate to address this new risk in the control of bovine TB in Wales?