| Heading: |
Wildlife: Disease Control |
| Question ID: |
1817476 |
| UIN: |
63490 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5362 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Angus MacDonald
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Mr Angus MacDonald
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is providing funding for UK-wide research into (a) badger conservation and (b) non-lethal wildlife health management. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
As part of the ongoing work on a comprehensive new bovine TB strategy, the Department is programme funding the establishment of a new badger vaccinator field force. This initiative aims to increase delivery of badger vaccination as a non-lethal method to ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |