Badger Culling

Order. The debate can last until 6 o’clock.

4.36 pm

It is a pleasure to serve once again under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, and to speak in a deb...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate and to follow the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesb...

I thank the hon. Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) for introducing this e-petition debate. I ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) on securing this debate o...

It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair again, Mr Hollobone. I thank the hon. Member for ...

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Badger Trust has been calling for significant investmen...

I will come back to that point. As has already been said, it is amazing what can be done quite qu...

If we had a vaccine that allowed us to differentiate between a vaccinated animal and an infected ...

I was very pleased to see the right hon. Gentleman walk in because I expected him to make exactly...

I was thinking about what the hon. Gentleman said about how half the badgers in the UK will have ...

I hear the hon. Gentleman’s point. However, he will know, full well, that others will disagree th...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise the economic boost that comes off the back of cattle no longer ...

I will come to the hon. Gentleman’s points, because I think that the crux of the question is, “Do...

Would the hon. Gentleman agree that, if one looks at New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland, whe...

I always bow to the right hon. Gentleman’s superior knowledge on this, but my recollection from r...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I thank my hon. Friend the Membe...

On that point, in Cheshire it is farmers, landowners, volunteers and the general public who suppo...

The hon. Gentleman is right. The Government have invested over £40 million in vaccines and tests....

May I share my disappointment that the oral vaccine that DEFRA was keen to roll out proved too un...

Indeed. As every Member said, we need to approach this issue in the most humane way possible.

I am interested in what the Minister said about 2025. The Labour party would need to win the next...

That is the date that I have been directed to. As my hon. Friend knows full well, as do I as some...

I thank the Minister for her positive response and for clearly charting a way forward, which hope...

I was, in fact, due to go tomorrow, but I am now unable to. I dare say those conversations will h...

May I remind the Minister that in North Yorkshire we have very healthy badgers and very healthy c...

I did not ask my team how they knew that there were 424,000 badgers in this country, because as f...

It has been a pleasure to serve under you in the Chair, Mr Hollobone. I thank the Minister for he...