10 days, and that, in the first half of 2011, more than 1,000 cattle had not been removed after 30 days. It found that there were 3,300 overdue TB tests as of May 2011 and that many calf passports, which are used to track movements, were incomplete. It also found that only 56% disease report forms had been completed on time. Funding cuts were cited as the reason for the failure of local authorities to update their databases. The Commission report concluded that local authority surveys provided evidence that "some cattle farmers may have been illegally swapping cattle ear tags, ie retaining TB-positive animals in their herds and sending less productive animals to slaughter in their place." A couple of Government Members are shaking their heads, but farmers have been prosecuted for that in the west country. "It is an open secret that isolation of [TB] reactors and inconclusive reactors is rare." He has said that DEFRA's database showed that, in 2009, there was 20.8% non-compliance on bovine TB issues. There was only one instance that year of a dairy farm being checked for compliance with an isolation notice. I welcome the fact that DEFRA has indicated that new rules and a crackdown on cattle movement, and increased TB testing, will take place from 1 January 2013 , with restrictions on farms where a TB case is identified, but I support Mark Jones , a vet and executive director of the Humane Society International UK , who has said that