Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 97313

Badgers: Conservation

Tabled: 4 December 2025

Answered: 10 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Chris Hinchliff

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2025 to 94315, whether planned changes to the Protection of Badgers Act would permit the killing of badgers solely for development purposes.

Answer

Mary Creagh

The changes to the Protection of Badgers Act (PoBA) effected by the Planning and Infrastructure Bill would permit licences for the purpose of preserving public health or safety or for reasons of overriding public interest, to kill or take badgers, or to i...

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