Consultation outcome

Bovine tuberculosis: proposals to help eradicate disease in England

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 27 January 2021
• Last updated: 27 May 2021 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Bovine TB: proposals to help eradicate disease in England: summary of responses and government responses

PDF, 447 KB, 22 pages

Annex A: details of changes to the guidance to Natural England

PDF, 311 KB, 19 pages

Detail of outcome

We received 20,395 responses to this consultation. Read the summary of responses and government response for full details.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on our proposals to help eradicate bovine tuberculosis in England.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 27 January 2021 to 11:45pm on 24 March 2021

Consultation description

In March 2020, the government published a response to Professor Sir Charles Godfray’s review of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) strategy, detailing our priorities for the next phase of the strategy.

This consultation and a parallel call for views sets out in more detail the proposals for delivery of the next phase of our 25-year strategy to eradicate bovine TB (bTB) in England by 2038, in keeping with those priorities. This consultation applies to England only.

Published 27 January 2021
Last updated 27 May 2021 + show all updates

1. 27 May 2021

   Added the summary of responses and government response.

2. 27 January 2021

   First published.