Source · National Audit Office
The 2001 Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease
Published: 21 Jun 2002
Type: Value for Money
A National Audit Office report to Parliament today on the handling of the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak showed that the outbreak cost the public sector over £3 billion and the private sector more than £5 billion. According to head of the NAO Sir John Bourn, lessons to be learned from the outbreak, unprecedented in […]