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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has culled badgers on land owned by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.

Culling is carried out by cull companies under licence from Natural England; culling is not carried out by Defra. For security reasons we do not comment on specific locations. Note that cull companies can only cull on land with the landowner’s permission.