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Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Commons · Question 9182 · Tabled 15 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 1 Nov 2024

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Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many culled badger carcasses have tested positive for TB since 2013; what plans his Department has for the number of badgers to be culled up to January 2026; and of those how many

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 1 Nov 2024

On 30 August, the Government announced the start of work on a comprehensive new strategy for England, to drive down bovine TB rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and end the badger cull by the end of this parliament. This will be undertaken in c...