| Heading: |
Badgers: Conservation |
| Question ID: |
1816666 |
| UIN: |
62748 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-25 |
| 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 badger population in each year since the enactment of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
Since the enactment of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, two national badger monitoring surveys have taken place. A 1994-97 survey estimate did not provide an estimate of the overall population but instead estimated there were 46,100 family groups in En... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |