Mismanagement of Foot & Mouth crisis results in soaring costs
25 November 2004, 04:52 PM
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Mismanagement of Foot & Mouth crisis results in soaring costs
This from Sky News:-
"FOOT AND MOUTH BILL SOARS
Taxpayers will have to pay an extra £600m towards the cost of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Britain had hoped to receive around £900m from an emergency EU fund to pay for major animal disease epidemics.
But the European Commission has disqualified nearly two-thirds of the claim, leaving British taxpayers to meet the shortfall.
It is thought the Commission took the action because of concerns about the way the crisis was handled.
Around 10 million animals died during the outbreak, which cost Britain £8 billion.
A spokesman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "The UK has been awarded about a third of the maximum we could have expected."
"But it is much higher than originally proposed by the Commission."
Neil Parish, Conservative agriculture spokesman in the European Parliament, called on the government to apologise for the debacle.
"It is no surprise to hear the Commission believes the outbreak was totally mismanaged by the Government," he told The Daily Telegraph"
Another example of "New Labour knows best" when it comes to rural affairs?
"FOOT AND MOUTH BILL SOARS
Taxpayers will have to pay an extra £600m towards the cost of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Britain had hoped to receive around £900m from an emergency EU fund to pay for major animal disease epidemics.
But the European Commission has disqualified nearly two-thirds of the claim, leaving British taxpayers to meet the shortfall.
It is thought the Commission took the action because of concerns about the way the crisis was handled.
Around 10 million animals died during the outbreak, which cost Britain £8 billion.
A spokesman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "The UK has been awarded about a third of the maximum we could have expected."
"But it is much higher than originally proposed by the Commission."
Neil Parish, Conservative agriculture spokesman in the European Parliament, called on the government to apologise for the debacle.
"It is no surprise to hear the Commission believes the outbreak was totally mismanaged by the Government," he told The Daily Telegraph"
Another example of "New Labour knows best" when it comes to rural affairs?
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