Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15097

Badgers: Animal Welfare and Disease Control

Tabled: 1 July 2026
Answered: 6 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on how many badgers were killed from (a) badger baiting and (b) badger culling in the South West as a proportion of the total number of badgers ki

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Defra does not hold official figures at national or regional level on the deaths of badgers resulting from badger baiting. The number of badgers culled annually under licence for bovine TB disease control purposes is available at the following link. Numbe...

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