Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 9182
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
Tabled: 15 October 2024
Answered: 1 November 2024
Question
Sarah Champion
Labour — Rotherham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many culled badger carcasses have tested positive for TB since 2013; what plans his Department has for the number of badgers to be culled up to January 2026; and of those how many
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerOn 30 August, the Government announced the start of work on a comprehensive new strategy for England, to drive down bovine TB rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and end the badger cull by the end of this parliament. This will be undertaken in c...
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