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Date: 20 August 2014
Dear Consultee

Consultation on a proposal to remove the requirement to include some information in the holding register of keepers of bovine animals in England

I am writing to invite views on a proposal to remove in England the requirement for keepers of bovine animals to include in their holding register details on the identification of the mother (dam) for bovine animals brought on to their holding. The requirement would remain in force for bovine animals born in the holding.

The following documents may be found at:

consult.defra.gov.uk/farming/reducing-information-requirements-for-the-holding/

This consultation letter

The consultation document

A list of consultees

We welcome your views and comments on the proposals. If you wish to obtain a copy of this consultation, please contact the Livestock Identification Team by email at cattleID@defra.gsi.gov.uk or by post at:

Livestock Identification Team
Area 5B, Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

Responses

To submit your consultation response please complete the consultation questionnaire provided through Citizen Space (Citizen Space is an on-line consultation tool).

Responses should be received by 31 October 2014.

Consultation Criteria

This consultation is in line with the Consultations Principles. This can be found at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/consultation-principles-guidance

Copies of individual responses will be made available to the public on request. If you do not want your response – including your name, contact details and any other personal information – to be publicly available, please say so clearly in writing when you submit your response to the consultation. Please note, if your computer automatically includes a confidentiality disclaimer, that won’t count as a confidentiality request.

Please explain why you need to keep details confidential. We will take your reasons into account if someone asks for this information under freedom of information legislation. But, because of the law, we cannot promise that we will always be able to keep those details confidential.

We will summarise all responses and place this summary on our website at www.gov.uk/defra. This summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded but not people’s personal names, addresses or other contact details.

To see consultation responses and summaries, please contact the Livestock Identification Team in the email or postal address above.

If you have any comments or complaints about the consultation process, please address them to:

Defra Consultation Co-ordinator,

Room 629
9 Millbank
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

or email consultation.coordinator@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Thank you for your help in this matter. If you have any queries please contact us as above.

Yours Faithfully,

Nieves Bottomley

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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