Badgers — Private Notice Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:44 pm on 9 October 2013.

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Photo of Lord May of Oxford Lord May of Oxford Crossbench 3:44, 9 October 2013

My Lords, this cull went ahead against the balance of advice from the scientific community, in particular that such a limited experiment was unlikely to yield much in the way of useful information. Does the Minister agree with me, however, that we have indeed learnt something important? We have learnt that those responsible for this so-called experiment are so incompetent that they could not even make a reliable estimate of the number of badgers.