Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 40170

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Tabled: 21 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Alberto Costa

ConservativeSouth Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to issue supplementary cull licences in 2025.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Government has started work on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to continue to drive down disease rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and to end the badger cull by the end of this Parliament. Licensing and authorisation decisions are ...

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