Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 10 May 2024.
Caroline Lucas
Green, Brighton, Pavilion
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the names of the members of his Department’s expert committee that is responsible for reviewing Natural England’s advice regarding licencing applications to release non-native gamebirds.
Rebecca Pow
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
In 2023, Defra established an expert panel to advise on individual licence applications to release common pheasant or red legged partridge on or within 500m of Special Protection Areas for birds. The panel consisted of experts in exotic disease control and epidemiological risk from Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Yes3 people think so
No2 people think not
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