6. 5. Statement: The Bovine TB Eradication Programme

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:59 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Lesley Griffiths Lesley Griffiths Labour 5:59, 3 October 2017

I thank David Melding for his questions, and I did say that certainly my intention is to preserve it. The European funding actually isn’t a huge percentage of the funding that we use, but, certainly, you’re quite right that we need to look at preserving that spending, and that’s certainly my intention, and I hope I made that clear to Simon Thomas before. There is insurance available. I did say it’s quite a new market, but there certainly is insurance available. I mentioned I’m keeping everything in relation to the refreshed programme under review. However, I also mentioned that England and Scotland are now consulting on reducing the compensation and having a cap at about £5,000. So, I don’t think we would be changing that in the near future, but the whole programme will be kept under review.