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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL15628, tabled on 9 May 2019

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 8 April (HL15102), what assessment they have made of the environmental impact of the disposal of the estimated 400,000 foxes killed each year in Britain, in particular to water courses.

Answered on

20 May 2019

The Environment Agency has not been made aware of any largescale or widespread practice of dead foxes being disposed of in watercourses.