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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL621, tabled on 25 June 2014

Question

The Duke of Montrose
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Lords

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to report on the effect of the current badger culling trials on other wildlife and the general ecology in those areas.

Answer

Lord De Mauley
Conservative
Excepted Hereditary
Lords

Answered on

7 July 2014

Defra has published the Food and Environment Research Agency's evaluation of the potential consequences for wildlife of a badger control policy in England.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wildlife-of-a-badger-control-policy-in-england-evaluation-of-the-potential-consequences

We are not planning any further work on this at the present time.

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