The UK Government is facing serious criticism of its handling of the £8 billion Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001, following the publication of a report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee on Friday.

Mr Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the committee said that some aspects of the handling of the disease were inexcusable and that the Ministry of Agriculture was guilty of a serous misjudgement in assuming that the risks of the outbreak were low.

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