Question follow-through · 3858
Badgers: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost is of culling badgers in Devon since the beginning of the cull.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost is of culling badgers in Devon since the beginning of the cull.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
Badger culls are industry led and the cost of delivering them has been met by participants. The additional costs to Defra have related to licensing, monitoring and policing for public safety. Badger control costs are published annually on GOV.UK and are a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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