| Heading: |
Badgers |
| Question ID: |
1814994 |
| UIN: |
61542 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4592 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Caroline Johnson
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| Asking Member handle: |
drcarolinej
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@drcarolinej
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the size of the badger population (a) in June 2025 and (b) in each of the last 10 years. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
The first major badger population survey in over a decade began in February 2025 and is currently ongoing. The most recent previous national survey was conducted in England and Wales between 2011 and 2013, estimating the badger population at approximately... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |