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Scottish Executive Response to: Lessons to be Learned; Royal Society; and Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiries into Foot and Mouth Disease
ANNEX C Terms of Reference of the Inquiries
Anderson Lessons to be Learned:
To make recommendations for the way in which the Government should handle any future major animal disease outbreak, in the light of the lessons identified from the handling of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in Great Britain.
The recommendations will be addressed to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.
Royal Society:
To review scientific questions relating to the transmission, prevention and control of epidemic outbreaks of infectious disease in livestock in Great Britain, and to make recommendations by Summer 2002.
The inquiry should take close account of related inquiries, notably the administrative inquiry into the handling of the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak and the policy commission on the future of agriculture.
Royal Society of Edinburgh:
The remit of the group carrying out the work will be to investigate the outbreak, spread and organism causing the disease with particular regard to its control, the impact on the economy, particularly that of tourism and rural affairs generally; and to draw lessons for the future.
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