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Westminster Hall
Bovine Tuberculosis Control and Badger Culling - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) as vaccination of badgers or reducing contact between badgers and cattle.”It went on:“An unfortunate - Speech Link
2: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) Many are of the view that badgers are not the primary cause of the spread of bovine TB and that culling - Speech Link
3: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) culling should stop immediately. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) He gave the example of milk production, but the production of food and drink, full stop, is a public - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) People who were poor to start off with and were working at below the living wage are now earning even - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) Rather than our talking about stopping the culling of badgers, and introducing other species, may I suggest - Speech Link
4: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) That creates a world of uncertainty, and many of them are struggling with that now. - Speech Link
5: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) of the SFI, and raised the issue of rural crime; and my hon. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Badger Culling - Wed 13 Jul 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None ; and e-petition 310307, Stop culling immediately and start widespread vaccination of badgers now.] - Speech Link
2: Tracey Crouch (CON - Chatham and Aylesford) across 250 sq km of east Sussex every year for four years, with an annual vaccination target of 675 badgers - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) We also know that many people hate the idea of culling badgers, and of course nobody wants to see a protected - Speech Link
4: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) fact that, where there is an outbreak, culling may be the only answer for both badgers and cattle—and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Badger Culling - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (CON - Don Valley) Vaccination of both badgers and cattle might also have a role to play, although I understand that it - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) vaccination training, works with landowners and farmers to map locations of badgers and trap them over - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) judgments.Labour would stop the culling of badgers. - Speech Link
4: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) The next stage of the bovine TV strategy will include replacing culling with badger vaccination and disease - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Mon 14 Oct 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) Because there is now widespread concern and support for action, and because we have what it takes to - Speech Link
2: John Bercow (Speaker - Buckingham) Stop it. It is low grade, downmarket and out of keeping with the code. - Speech Link
3: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Conservative vision is of a nation full of innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups. - Speech Link
4: Cheryl Gillan (CON - Chesham and Amersham) cost, the poor governance and the disastrous management of the project.First, and immediately, I ask - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Badger Culling - Mon 27 Mar 2017
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) vaccination is leading to a substantial reduction in the prevalence of TB in badgers and that any temporary - Speech Link
2: Paul Monaghan (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) the level of infectious TB in badgers is much higher than it is, and that culling might make a difference - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) , the decision to continue and extend the culling of badgers.”We have been falsely presented with the - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) in rolling out the trapping and vaccination of badgers in the edge area. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Thu 13 Mar 2014
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Roger Williams (LDEM - Brecon and Radnorshire) , and now there is vaccination. - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) of free shooting suggests that both culling and vaccination would entail cage trapping, with vaccination - Speech Link
3: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) and cattle spread bTB to cattle and that the targeted culling of badgers does reduce the levels of infection - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Badger Cull - Wed 11 Dec 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Neil Parish (CON - Tiverton and Honiton) only got control of tuberculosis once it started culling badgers? - Speech Link
2: Chris Williamson (IND - Derby North) The vaccination of badgers in Wales seems to be working. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) There is a vast difference between culling badgers and culling foxes, and if he had availed himself of - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) should take account of badgers shot and wounded but not immediately killed. - Speech Link
5: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) in developing methods of deploying vaccine to both badgers and cattle, because, although vaccination - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Wed 05 Jun 2013
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Owen Paterson (CON - North Shropshire) There are few now who choose to argue that culling badgers, done carefully and correctly, cannot lead - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) have “overlooked” the benefits of a sustained programme of vaccination, and that:“Vaccinating badgers - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) , including cattle controls, biosecurity, and promoting vaccination of both badgers and cattle. - Speech Link
4: Tracey Crouch (CON - Chatham and Aylesford) up, spoke, and then voted against the culling of badgers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Badger Cull - Thu 25 Oct 2012
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Iain McKenzie (LAB - Inverclyde) Vaccination is now possible for both cattle and badgers, and should be implemented as soon as possible - Speech Link
2: Roger Williams (LDEM - Brecon and Radnorshire) of badgers and cattle. - Speech Link
3: Julian Sturdy (CON - York Outer) of badgers and cattle. - Speech Link
4: Mike Weatherley (CON - Hove) The cull must be halted and the only alternative is the vaccination of both badgers and cattle, as we - Speech Link
5: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) The vaccination of both badgers and cattle, together with enhanced cattle testing and improved biosecurity - Speech Link
6: Neil Carmichael (CON - Stroud) brucellosis, the threat of BSE, the arrival of foot and mouth and now, of course, TB. - Speech Link