Livestock Identification and Tracing Programme (Hansard, 19 July 2004)

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§ Baroness Byford
asked Her Majesty's Government:
When the new livestock identification and tracing programme will be in place. [HL3664]

§ Lord Whitty
The introduction of a single livestock register for registering and recording movements of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer is the key component of Defra's Livestock Identification and Tracing Programme. We are planning for delivery of the register by late 2006–07 but the project is still being scoped and is highly dependent on the progress of other related IT projects.