Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the badgers shot during year two of the pilot badger culls in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) Somerset were (i) cage trapped and (ii) shot without being caged trapped.
The culls were closely monitored and the processes for data collection were independently audited. The results now need to be quality assured and assessed. It would not be appropriate to comment until these steps have been completed.