AQW 12525/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of livestock culls in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 24 May 2024
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 24 May 2024
- Answer due by
- 11 June 2024
- Answered
- 5 June 202412 days after tabling
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Following clarification received, this response details animals culled in the years 2019-2023 per Divisional Veterinary Office (DVO) for:
bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) eradication
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) eradication.
Results illustrated in the 2 tables below:
bTB
| Year | Number of animals per DVO | |||||||||
| Armagh | B’mena | Coleraine | D’Gannon | E’killen | L’Derry/ Strabane | Mallusk | Newry | N’Ards | Omagh | |
| 2019 | 1520 | 672 | 1066 | 1556 | 1538 | 207 | 698 | 2623 | 1747 | 1392 |
| 2020 | 1098 | 771 | 1769 | 1279 | 1842 | 209 | 543 | 2856 | 1700 | 1270 |
| 2021 | 1296 | 646 | 1769 | 1480 | 1949 | 238 | 517 | 3134 | 2060 | 1270 |
| 2022 | 1293 | 1035 | 1990 | 1508 | 2831 | 524 | 547 | 3376 | 2613 | 1653 |
| 2023 | 2070 | 834 | 1751 | 1890 | 3003 | 639 | 324 | 3130 | 2388 | 2121 |
ii) HPAI
| Year | DVO | Number of Flock Depopulations (no of birds in brackets) |
| 2019 | N/A | 0 |
| 2020 | N/A | 0 |
| 2021 | Armagh Ballymena Dungannon Mallusk | 1 (13212) 3 (16220, 30300 and 32) 3 (21400, 24829 and 26754) 1 (31000) |
| 2022 | Enniskillen | 1 (47) |
| 2023 | N/A | 0 |