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Badgers: Disease Control

Commons · Question 3800 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 10 Sep 2024

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Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on vaccinating badgers to help tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 10 Sep 2024

Over the past few years, several initiatives have been introduced to encourage take up of badger vaccination over larger, more contiguous areas. Bolstering APHA field teams to deliver badger vaccination in several areas where licensed badger culling had e...