HC Deb 08 December 1960 vol 631 c161W
56. Mr. de Freitas

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the approximate annual expenditure over the last 10 years for research into foot-and-mouth disease, and over the same period what is the approximate annual loss from this disease.

Mr. Soames

Government research into foot-and-mouth disease is carried out at the Research Institute at Pirbright, Surrey and financed through the Agricultural Research Council. Annual expenditure over the past 10 years has averaged £140,000. Over the same period compensation to owners of stock compulsorily slaughtered has been about £600,000 per annum. I have no reliable estimates of consequential losses.