Badgers Debate

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Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lord Dixon-Smith

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Badgers

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Georgia
Tuesday 11th December 2012

(12 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord De Mauley Portrait Lord De Mauley
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My Lords, I have referred to costs already. I can only repeat that the cost of not bearing down on TB in cattle through, among other things, controlling the badger population is currently about £90 million a year and is increasing.

Lord Dixon-Smith Portrait Lord Dixon-Smith
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My Lords, I am a farmer but not a cattle man—

Lord Strathclyde Portrait The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)
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My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Soulsby, is trying to get in.

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