Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 July 2023.
David Morris
Conservative, Morecambe and Lunesdale
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many individual shoot licence applications her Department has received in each of the last (a) six and (b) twelve months.
Trudy Harrison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
During 2022 Natural England received 7 individual Licence applications for the release of gamebirds (common pheasants and/or red-legged partridges) on and/or with 500m of a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) or a Special Protection Area (SPA).
As of 21 June 2023, Natural England has received 84 Individual Licence applications for the release of gamebirds on and/or within 500m of those Sites.
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