Question follow-through · 32482
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on ending badger culling.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on ending badger culling.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government has started work on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to continue to drive down disease rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and to end the badger cull by the end of this parliament. The previous government was taking decisio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of new legislative measures to protect the welfare of farmed fish.
MV Solong and MV Stena Immaculate: Accidents
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of pollution caused by the collision between the Solong and Stena Immaculate.
MV Solong and MV Stena Immaculate: Accidents
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the collision between the Solong and Stena Immaculate on harbour porpoises.
Shipping: Databases
20 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to update data provided to the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels.
Livestock: Import Controls
20 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the auto-clearance system on the UK’s ability to enforce (a) bans on the import of live (i) cattle, (ii) pigs and (iii) sheep and
Animal Products: Imports
20 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) products of animal origin and (b) products containing products of animal origin have entered the UK from (i) Germany, (ii) Slovakia and (iii) Hungary since imports have be
Consumer Goods: Carbon Emissions
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16660 on Consumer Goods: Carbon Emissions, what discussions he has had with the (a) Circular Economy Taskforce and (b) Committees
Countryside: Access
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals in this Session to create a right of responsible access to the English countryside.
Litter
31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36460 on Litter, what steps he plans to take to support local authorities to tackle littering.
Horticulture: Subsidies
31 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with representatives of the horticultural industry on an alternative to the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme.
Packaging: Recycling
2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of facilitating the recycling of blister packs.
Nature Conservation
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to publish the 48 new Local Nature Recovery Strategies.