Speeches

The Duke of Montrose – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Duke of Montrose on 2014-06-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to report on the effect of the current badger culling trials on other wildlife and the general ecology in those areas.

Lord De Mauley

Defra has published the Food and Environment Research Agency’s evaluation of the potential consequences for wildlife of a badger control policy in England.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wildlife-of-a-badger-control-policy-in-england-evaluation-of-the-potential-consequences

We are not planning any further work on this at the present time.