HC Deb 15 June 1989 vol 154 cc497-8W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list those notifiable diseases in animals for which a slaugher and compensation scheme operates; and if he will list those notifiable diseases in animals for which a compensation scheme does not operate.

Mr. Donald Thompson

The information is as follows:

  1. (a) Notifiable diseases for which a slaugher and compensation scheme operates are:
    • African swine fever
    • Aujeszky's disease
    • 498
    • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
    • Brucellosis melitensis in cattle
    • Cattle plague in ruminants and swine
    • Classical swine fever
    • Foot and mouth disease
    • Pleuro-pneumonia in cattle
    • Rabies
    • Swine vesicular disease
    • Tuberculosis in cattle
  2. (b) Notifiable diseases for which a slaughter and compensation scheme does not operate are:
    • African horse sickness
    • Anthrax
    • Contagious equine metritis
    • Dourine in horses, asses, mules and zebras
    • Enzootic bovine leukosis
    • Epizootic lymphangitis in horse, asses and mules
    • Equine encephalomyelitis
    • Equine infectious anaemia
    • Fowl pest (fowl plague, Newcastle disease and paramyxovirus) in poultry of any kind
    • Glanders and farcy in horses, asses and mules
    • Paramyxovirus in pigeons
    • Sheep pox
    • Sheep scab
    • Teschen disease of pigs
    • Tuberculosis in deer
    • Warble fly

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