Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 77133

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 15 October 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to end the culling of badgers.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Work is progressing at pace on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to drivedown bovine TB rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and end the badger cull by the end of this parliament.