§ Mr. LazarowiczTo ask the Secretary of State for international Development what level of funding her Department intends to provide for research by the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh(a) over the current financial year, (b) in the period up to 2005 and (c) after 2005. [72152]
§ Clare ShortThe Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh is contracted by my Department to manage a programme of animal health research. The programme develops, and promotes the adoption of, cost-effective strategies for the sustainable control of livestock diseases affecting the livelihoods of poor people in parts of east and southern Africa and in Asia. The contract runs to March 2005. Funding available under the contract by financial year is:
- 2002–03: £3,373,000
- 2003–04: £2,771,000
- 2004–05: to be determined.
These figures include funds provided specifically for a project to develop an improved vaccine to prevent losses from East Coast fever, a fatal tick-transmitted disease of cattle in eastern, central and southern Africa.
No decisions have been taken on funding for animal health research after March 2005.