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Deer: Conservation

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 2049, tabled on 15 November 2023

Question

Sir Desmond Swayne
Conservative
New Forest West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the deer management strategy.

Answer

Rebecca Pow
Conservative
Taunton Deane
Commons

Answered on

28 November 2023

Native wild deer are an important component of our landscape but if left unchecked, they can cause serious problems to agricultural crops, tree planting schemes, conservation and biodiversity.

In the England Trees Action Plan and Environmental Improvement Plan, we committed to addressing these pressures through developing a National Deer Management Strategy. This strategy will be published in due course.

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