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Badgers and Foxes: Farms

Commons · Question 48864 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

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Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce harms done by (a) foxes and (b) badgers to agricultural property.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 8 May 2025

It is lawful for farmers and landowners to manage foxes causing damage to property, so long as this is done in a lawful and humane way. Advice on protecting property from damage by foxes is included in this Natural England guidance note: Foxes, moles and ...