Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 8269

Horses: Dartmoor

Tabled: 9 October 2024
Answered: 17 October 2024

Question

Steve Race

LabourExeter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to rule out any reductions in the minimum population of Dartmoor's iconic semi-wild Hill Ponies as part of future land management or environmental strateg

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Through the new offer we will be providing payment for grazing with both cattle and ponies and making both cattle and ponies eligible under the native breeds at risk supplement. We are thereby removing the competition between the two as recommended in the...

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