§ Baroness Byfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the cost of research programmes into the causes of bovine tuberculosis and into developing a suitable vaccine in the years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and up to July 2003. [HL4733]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty)The following table shows the costs of the government research programme for the financial years 1998–99 to 2003–04.
Financial Year Defra-funded Bovine TB Research 1£ Vaccine-related Research £ 1998–1999 2,503,986 825,942 1999–2000 4,091,122 1,352,204 2000–2001 5,233,343 1,415,287 2001–2002 6,096,314 1,505,887 2002–2003 6,823,611 1,495,314 2003–2004 7,049,776 1,618,819 1 This does not include the costs of the randomised badger culling trial, TB99 and the road traffic accident survey work details as follows:
Table 2 RBCT, TB99, RTA & Associated Research Costs Cost (£.000) 1998–99 2,988 1999–2000 4,392 2000–01 6,630 2001–02 6,001 2002–03 6,479 2003–04 7,990