I am extremely grateful for that intervention. The hon. Gentleman must have been reading my notes, because I make that point very well. As he said, these two trials are entirely at the farmers’ expense, and there would be very little cost in policing them were it not for the activity of the protesters. If we set the cost of culling against the cost of what the farmers are providing, there is no doubt about it: this cull is very considerably cheaper than the cost of vaccination, which is not yet proved to be working either. I would be interested to know, when the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle) speaks, whether she thinks vaccination is working in Wales.
Badger Culls (Assessment)
Proceeding contribution from
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 4 November 2014.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Badger Culls (Assessment).
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