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Badgers: East Midlands

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 10 July 2025UIN 64399

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the size of the badger population in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The first major national badger population survey in a decade began in February, with the first round of fieldwork now concluded. Further surveying will resume later this year, to estimate badger abundance and population recovery.

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