Question follow-through · 7686
Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the badger vaccination programme on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the badger vaccination programme on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
Multiple published studies indicate that badger vaccination is safe and can reduce TB infection and transmission in badgers. Vaccination is now being deployed across a number of large areas, including through a newly contracted Badger Vaccination Field Fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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