HC Deb 21 July 1997 vol 298 c458W
Mr. Clifton-Brown

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the security of Britain's tuberculosis-free status. [8893]

Mr. Rooker

The officially tuberculosis-free status of individual cattle herds in the United Kingdom is protected by routine tuberculin testing and by post mortem examination of cattle at the time of slaughter or killing.