What you don't hear in the papers.

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October 10th ~ "Will the Secretary of State confirm that, by a cruel twist of irony, work on a vaccine to protect against bluetongue has been put on hold..."

asked Peter Ainsworth on Monday (click link then search for "column 41") (Hansard) "When does he now expect a bluetongue vaccine to be available?"
But answer came there none
Hilary Benn's stolid and stodgy replies throughout the next hour gave no hint that he was even aware that his Department had stopped production. So what about the "rigorous Improvement Plan" for the Pirbright site, to be "implemented before full operations with live viruses can recommence"? Apparently unable to see that his rigorous plan was putting an indefinite stop to production he blithely followed Henry Bellingham's warning that bluetongue had the capacity totally to devastate the livestock industry with this:
"the best route for preventing the with this:
"the best route for preventing the situation that the hon. Gentleman describes is to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible, and to make sure that it is used to protect livestock." In the course of the hour long debate on FMD and Bluetongue, nothing more was said to answer Peter Ainsworth's questions. We learnt only that the review Sir Bill Callaghan is to carry out does not even report until December.
 
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