Bovine Tuberculosis: South West

(asked on 20th October 2014) - View Source

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.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 23rd October 2014

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.

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