Badger Cull

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 3:17 pm on 25 October 2012.

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Photo of James Paice James Paice Conservative, South East Cambridgeshire 3:17, 25 October 2012

As it was me who cancelled those “trials”, I feel that I need to respond. May I make it absolutely clear to my hon. Friend and to the House that they were not “trials”, as she has just described them, but vaccine deployment projects? They were nothing to do with testing vaccines; they simply sought to work out how to trap, inject and so on. They were about the mechanics. I decided, rightly or wrongly, that we did not need six of these things, costing £7 million or £8 million, and that everything could be learned from one. That is why we did what we did.