Question follow-through · 62748
Badgers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the badger population in each year since the enactment of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the badger population in each year since the enactment of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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30 Jun 2025
Answer published
Since the enactment of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, two national badger monitoring surveys have taken place. A 1994-97 survey estimate did not provide an estimate of the overall population but instead estimated there were 46,100 family groups in En...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) named day questions and (b) ordinary written questions were responded to by her Department within the required timescale in (i) May 2025, (ii) June 2025, (iii) J