Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 1916
Badgers: Disease Control
Tabled: 26 July 2024
Answered: 17 September 2024
Named DayQuestion
Sarah Champion
Labour — Rotherham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; whether he plans to continue with the cull of badgers in Derbyshire; and for what reason 1,675 badgers were to be culled.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Government has committed to ending badger culling by the next General Election. In contrast, in the past decade over 230,000 badgers were culled. On 30 August, Defra announced that we will be working on a comprehensive new TB eradication strategy to e...
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