questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on how many badgers were killed from (a) badger baiting and (b) badger culling in the South West as a proportion of the total number of badgers killed from those practices in England in each of the last five years.
answerText: Defra does not hold official figures at national or regional level on the deaths of badgers resulting from badger baiting. The number of badgers culled annually under licence for bovine TB disease control purposes is available at the following link. Numbe...
heading: Badgers: Animal Welfare and Disease Control