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Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2006

My Lords, I accept the Minister’s comeback. I was not wishing to score a political point, but I shall look at Hansard carefully, as I thought that that was precisely what the Minister said. Obviously, biosecurity and the control of the disease are enormously important; they go side by side. The Minister challenged me on whether we would be willing to move to the new table value were we in government. I should have thought so. I cannot see a reason why not, but we have to consider the fairness of a new scheme. I notice that the Minister did not touch at all on my suggestion that the Government should do more about bovine TB spread in general. It is difficult to expect farmers to comply and do all that they can, while the question of the disease and the disease spread is not being dealt with. It has been going on for eight years and is becoming worse, as I suggested. Nearly 30,000 cattle were killed last year, which is an absolute disgrace. It is high time for greater action.