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Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 15 October 2025UIN 77133

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to end the culling of badgers.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Work is progressing at pace on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, to drivedown bovine TB rates to save cattle and farmers’ livelihoods and end the badger cull by the end of this parliament.

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