Claire Perry appears on BBC Wiltshire to discuss Bovine TB

Whilst carrying on with local casework and meetings, I have become increasingly aware about the on-going misery caused to our local farmers by the bovine TB epidemic that is raging in Wiltshire and I appeared on BBC Wiltshire to discuss the issue. TB cases are up more than 50 per cent in the last six months and farmers from the Avebury area eastwards have told us that they expect their herds to be infected if they are not already. Not only does the TB testing, culling and compensation programme cost the taxpayer over sixty million pounds a year, but the impact on a family farm with a pedigree herd can be devastating. In my view it is time to get on with the programme of controlled, humane, badger culling that has bought the disease under control in the Republic of Ireland so we can have healthy wildlife, healthy cattle and a thriving local dairy farming industry.

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