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.
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 |