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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2018 to Question 173504 on Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control, whether Natural England found any landholdings to be non-compliant with licence conditions and the Best Practice Guide.

Natural England continues to conduct monitoring of controlled shooting and cage-trapping contractors in the current licensing period and has not identified any issues regarding compliance with licence conditions and the Best Practice Guides. A summary of compliance monitoring will be published by Natural England after the end of operations for the year, as has been done in previous years.