§ Mr. PatersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will estimate the cumulative savings that her Department will achieve over financial years 2003–04 to 2012–13 by changing the basis on which compensation is paid to farmers for animals slaughtered. [157951]
§ Mr. BradshawThe responses to the consultation document on the Rationalisation of Compensation for Notifiable Animal Diseases are still being considered and no decisions have yet been taken. It is therefore too early to determine whether any savings will be made.