FUNDING FOR FARM ANIMAL DISEASES

Early day motion 1220, tabled 27 March 2007 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 12 members.

That this House believes that the increase in farm incomes of 25 per cent. last year justifies a reassessment of the free insurance scheme provided by taxpayers for farm animals; notes that no other industry enjoys free insurance; is alarmed that since 2002 taxpayers have paid £13 million for animals who died from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, £24 million for scrapie and £166 million for bovine tuberculosis; and urges the farming industry to escape the dependency victim culture and pay their own insurance premiums.

Signatures by party: Labour 8, Liberal Democrat 2, DUP 1, Independent 1.