Heddon-on-the-Wall: Tests for Foot and Mouth

HL Deb 14 May 2002 vol 635 c37WA

Lord Willoughby de Broke

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the tests for foot and mouth disease carried out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs veterinarians in February 2001 at Mr Bobby Waugh's farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, were positive or negative; and whether the results of those tests have been made public. [HL4130]

Lord Whitty

The results of the tests for foot and mouth virus in February 2001 at Bobby Waugh's farm are likely to form part of the evidence at the current trial.