MPs have given their backing to the Government's planned badger cull, designed to halt bovine TB. Labour had put down an opposition motion, calling for the cull to be stopped. But the House of Commons voted down the motion, with a majority of 49. Earlier, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said vaccinating...
A badger culling programme is beginning in Somerset and Gloucestershire this weekend,...
The Government has defended its plans for controlling the badger population ahead of ...
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is drawing up plans for extra culling areas for b...
Sixty per cent of more than 3,148 British animal and plant species have declined in t...
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee press release During a parliamentary debate scheduled for Thursday 13 June, MPs on the Environment, Food and R...
Labour will seek to amend the Antisocial Behaviour, Policing and Crime Bill to include Dog Control Notices, which target dangerous dogs with preventative action. ...
Labour party press release Mary Creagh MP, Labour's Shadow Environment Secretary, following the vote in the House of Commons on the badger cull, said: "It is di...
EFRA Committee press release In a report published today on progress to develop a vaccine solution for bovine TB, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee...
Labour press release Labour calls Parliamentary vote on badger cull. Labour has announced it will table an Opposition Day debate on the Government's plans for a...
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