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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the environmental impact of lead discharged during game bird shooting.

Defra has not assessed the environmental impact of lead discharged during game bird shooting.

We have no plans to extend the existing Regulations to ban the use of lead shot in England as this would be premature pending the Lead Ammunition Group’s report to Government expected.