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Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Commons · Question 40170 · Tabled 21 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 28 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Alberto Costa

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to issue supplementary cull licences in 2025.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 28 Mar 2025

The Government has started work on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to continue to drive down disease rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and to end the badger cull by the end of this Parliament. Licensing and authorisation decisions are ...