Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 7 February 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to hold discussions with the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary on its proposal to end the protection of badgers.
We have no plans to reduce the legal protection afforded to badgers in England.
The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary have never advocated the removal of the Protection of Badgers Act across the UK.
In responding to a consultation in 2015 about the criteria for badger control (culling) licences, they suggested an option might be for Defra to consider the removal of the Act in cull zones to allow greater flexibility in the methods used to stop the spread of Bovine TB. Defra did not consider this necessary.
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