Squirrels
(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the numbers of (a) grey squirrels and (b) red squirrels in England.
Answered by
Mary Creagh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 20th November 2025
A 2018 report by the Mammal Society estimates there are 1.94million grey squirrels and 38,900 red squirrels in England.