If the Government think that those are the right tests, let them tell us what the advice is. Column 345 applying, but they should not have a policy that they are afraid to introduce if some people disagree with it. That sums up new Labour Government. Many uninfected animals are suffering as a direct result of the foot and mouth crisis. Healthy animals cannot be moved because of the movement restrictions.
Lambs are in the wrong places, pigs suffer overcrowding and much distress is caused.
The Minister of State will recall that my hon. The Government's scheme, when it emerged some weeks later, was welcome, but the evidence is that it is not working very quickly. I heard this week from a farmer whom I visited in November, long before the foot and mouth crisis began. That farmer is within 3 km of an infected premises and, therefore, could not move any of her pigs. In a letter she faxed to me on Monday, she described the horrifying consequences of the overcrowding among her pigs, including tail biting and fighting.