I met people from Natural England a few months ago and they very much gave me the impression that the process was little more than a rubber-stamping exercise and they took their steer from DEFRA as to whether they would go ahead. It came across to me as a political decision rather than, in any way, an academic exercise.
Badger Culling/Bovine TB
Proceeding contribution from
Kerry McCarthy
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 7 September 2016.
It occurred during Debate on Badger Culling/Bovine TB.
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