Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Deer management strategy, published on 4 August 2022, what her Department's expected timescale is for responding to the consultation.

Consultation responses have been collated, analysed and fed into the development of the deer management strategy. I cannot provide an exact date for the publication of the Government response to the consultation, but I can reassure the Hon Member that it is being progressed and it is our intention to publish as soon as we are in a position to do so.