| Heading: |
Badgers: East Midlands |
| Question ID: |
1818867 |
| UIN: |
64399 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
350 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir John Hayes
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sir John Hayes
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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: |
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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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |