Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 15 December2003, Official Report, column 631W, whether she has consulted the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on the veterinary resourceimplications of increasing the frequency of cattle TB testing. [159276]Mr. Bradshaw: The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is one of the organisations we are currently consulting in the course of ourreview of the bovine tuberculosis strategy.