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

To ask His Majesty's Government which deer species they consider should be eliminated from the UK, if any.

The deer impacts policy statement sets out a plan to sustainably manage wild deer in England so that they are not a threat to environmental, social or economic goals. It does not set targets for individual species as impacts vary across the country, depending on the number of species present, their activities and levels of abundance in an area. We are encouraging regional and landscape-scale approaches.

Defra will seek to review relevant invasive deer species, with respect to potentially listing them as species of special concern alongside Muntjac.