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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of badgers culled in the trials in Gloucestershire and Somerset were infected with bovine TB.

Badgers removed under licence during the pilot culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset were not routinely tested for TB. The RBCT and previous Road Traffic Accident surveys found TB in around one third of all badgers in these areas.