This report into last year's outbreak is the last of three ordered after the epidemic which is thought to have cost the nation £8bn.

Here are the key findings in the Lessons To Be Learned report:

• The report highlights ministers' failure to prepare for such an outbreak

• It stresses the importance of contingency plans for the future in case of another outbreak

• The military should be contacted at "the earliest appropriate, opportunity" to provide advice and support when an outbreak occurs

• A comprehensive animal health strategy needs to be developed

• Vaccination should form part of a future strategy for containing the disease and that should be vaccination to live rather than vaccination to kill

• Former agriculture minister Nick Brown lost the trust of the public by saying the disease was under control when it was not

• A national ban on livestock movements should apply when the first foot-and-mouth case was confirmed but the report acknowledged this would not necessarily have prevented the epidemic

• The livestock industry should promote good practice and tackle poor standards of farming

• Burning animals on mass pyres should not be used as a strategy in future for disposing of slaughtered cattle