Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 64399
Badgers: East Midlands
Tabled: 2 July 2025
Answered: 10 July 2025
Question
Sir John Hayes
Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the size of the badger population in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe first major national badger population survey in a decade began in February, with the first round of fieldwork now concluded. Further surveying will resume later this year, to estimate badger abundance and population recovery.