Inquiries into FMD and the future of farming and the countryside

• Defra's FMD contingency plan

• Government response to the Reports of the Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiries

  • Route map for implementation of commitments in Government response

• No.10 News Release announcing the Inquiries

• Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food
• Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock
• "Lessons learned" Inquiry

• Government Memorandum addressing issues raised in the Framework Document of the Lessons Learned Inquiry

  • Contents, Introduction and Part 1 (75 KB)

  • Part 2 (195 KB)

  • Part 3 (60 KB)

  • Executive summary (25 KB)

• Paper by Defra (ESD) and DCMS on the costs of the FMD outbreak (95 KB)
  (referred to in paragraph 2.5.10 of the Government memorandum). This is the final version, as published in the OIE Review Journal in July 2003.

• Paper on the applicability of the recommendations made by the Committee of Inquiry on FMD in 1967-69 during the 2001 outbreak. (100 KB) This has been submitted to the Lessons Learned Inquiry.

• Paper on the origins of the UK Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic in 2001 (90 KB)

  • Report of Veterinary Officer M McKey on the investigation of events at Burnside Farm, February 2001 (232 KB)

  • Judge's summing up in Waugh prosecution case held at Bedlington Magistrates Court on May 30 2002 (1.19 MB - NB large file)

Defra comments on the FMD outbreak
These comments were sent to Northumberland County Council on 18 December 2001 for use by their Inquiry into FMD and are available to all other local inquiries.

Defra Response to 18 Questions from the European Parliament Temporary Committee on FMD
Response to the set of 18 questions posed by the EP Temporary Committee on FMD to representatives and former representatives of the UK Government for the meetings of the Temporary Committee on 26 March 2001 and 8 April 2001.

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