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Recommendation 23
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Multi-species livestock tracing system programme experienced significant resets due to technical issues
Conclusion
The Department first started work to create a digital, multi-species, UK-wide tracing system in 2013 and acknowledged that it has been working on this for a long time. It explained that the original concept of using an off- the-shelf solution for a single species and adapting that for multiple species was not technically possible, and this required a significant reset of the programme around four or five years ago.32
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 19 January 2026. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗