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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of land holdings in the cull area were visited by Natural England to assess whether best practice on exposure to extreme weather was being followed during the supplementary badger culls in west Somerset and west Gloucestershire in 2018.

Natural England monitored 52% and 45% of available landholdings in West Gloucester and West Somerset respectively in 2018 to assess compliance with licence conditions and the Best Practice Guide.