Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many badgers have been culled in each year since 2013.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th March 2022

The number of badgers culled to control the spread of bovine TB is published annually on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb-controlling-the-risk-of-bovine-tb-from-badgers#monitoring-and-evaluation.

Data for 2021 is currently being compiled and will be published in due course.

Number of badgers culled

2013

1,869

2014

615

2015

1,467

2016

10,886

2017

19,537

2018

32,934

2019

35,034

2020

38,642

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