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Badgers: Disease Control

Commons · Question 1916 · Tabled 26 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; whether he plans to continue with the cull of badgers in Derbyshire; and for what reason 1,675 badgers were to be culled.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 17 Sep 2024

The Government has committed to ending badger culling by the next General Election. In contrast, in the past decade over 230,000 badgers were culled. On 30 August, Defra announced that we will be working on a comprehensive new TB eradication strategy to e...