AQW 12525/22-27


Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry


Tabled Date: 24/05/2024
Answered On Date: 05/06/2024
Priority Written: No


Question:
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.


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