Question follow-through · 62797
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for ending the badger cull.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for ending the badger cull.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
Work has begun on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy to reduce disease rates and end the badger cull by the end of this Parliament.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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