Badgers: Disease Control

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 12 August 2024.

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Photo of Steve Barclay Steve Barclay Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what date he expects to have ceased badger culling.

Photo of Daniel Zeichner Daniel Zeichner The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

This government will respect the advice of the widest range of expert advisers when considering the end of the badger cull.

There has not been a major bovine TB strategy review in nearly six years. The last was commissioned by the then Secretary of State Michael Gove and was carried out by Professor Sir Charles Godfray. It informs our starting point as we increase the effort to achieve bovine TB free status by 2038.

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