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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate she has made of the total costs under phase one of the national scrapie plan of (a) the identification and registration of rams, (b) the registration of farms, (c) the collection of blood samples and their dispatch to the laboratory, (d) the laboratory testing of blood samples to establish genotypes, and (e) certification. [61534] Mr. Morley: Information is not available in the format requested. A major part of the costs under (a), (c) and (e) relates to the administrative costs of the state veterinary service, and a breakdown of the service's costs by those categories is not available. As regards (b), the national scrapie plan does not maintain a specific and separate register of farms. Expenditure on the genotyping schemes for both the registered and non-registered sectors which have already been launched under the national scrapie plan will depend on levels of uptake under what are voluntary schemes. Estimated annual expenditure is given in the table for different levels of assumed uptake. The figures exclude the administrative costs of the state veterinary service and IT costs. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Assuming 40 per cent. uptake Assuming 60 per cent. uptake Assuming 80 per cent. uptake Ram genotyping registered 4 6 8 Ram genotyping non-registered 7 10 13 Total 11 16 21 Of which: Laboratory genotyping costs 4.4 6.6 8.8 Animal identification costs 1.5 2.2 2.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

61534; 387 c481W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Costs Genetic engineering Genetics Disease control Testing Sheep Scrapie

Contains statistics

Yes

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