Over Thirty Months Scheme for Cattle

HL Deb 16 December 1999 vol 608 c64WA

The Countess of Mar

asked Her Majesty's Government:

For how long they anticipate the Over Thirty Months Scheme for cattle will continue. [HL323]

Baroness Hayman

In due course it may be appropriate to discuss the Over Thirty Months Scheme with European partners following advice from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee on the over thirty month rule. In the meantime the Government's planning assumption is that the scheme will continue for the foreseeable future.