The statistics show that the spread and increase in the United Kingdom is almost unique. Does my right hon. Friend attribute anything to the fact that we were, for very good reasons, the only country to have given the badger protected status in the 1970s—no other EU member state did so—so its natural predator has not been able to control the increase in numbers and the potential spread of disease through the badger population?
Badger Cull
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5 June 2013.
It occurred during Opposition day on Badger Cull.
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