Part of the debate – Senedd Cymru am 5:17 pm ar 28 Mawrth 2023.
Thank you. Well, I would hope that the whole of the programme will. I think it's really important. You can't just take one piece of the jigsaw, and it is indeed a jigsaw, and I go back to what I was saying about everyone having their part to play. So, obviously, we bring the policy forward. It's really important that the farmer looks at informed purchasing. It's really important that the farmer looks at their biosecurity; if they have any concerns, they speak to their own vet in the first instance, and then obviously we can also assist with that. I think that enhanced surveillance that we've had in north Wales, and I suppose I'm referring to north-east Wales in particular, but obviously now it's going over to north-west Wales, has been very good. It's been able to detect infection much more quickly, and it has slowed down the rate of new TB incidents over the long term. And that's what we want to do. We want to drive down the disease before it becomes established in high-TB areas. So, that's what we've been doing, and I hope that will continue to reassure north Walian farmers.