§ Lord Hoosonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the United Kingdom is hosting one of the nine pilot projects on the electronic tagging of livestock as planned by the European Commission; and if not, whether they intend to have their own pilot project. [HL1147]
§ Lord DonoughueThe United Kingdom is not participating in the IDEA project on the electronic identification of animals, principally because our resources in the area of cattle identification are already at full stretch in creating a national database of cattle movements. There are, however, a number of trials of this nature taking place in the United Kingdom.