United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 97313
Badgers: Conservation
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4 December 2025
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10 December 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2025 to 94315, whether planned changes to the Protection of Badgers Act would permit the killing of badgers solely for development purposes.
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4 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2025 to 94315, whether planned changes to the Protection of Badgers Act would permit the killing of badgers solely for development purposes.
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10 December 2025
Answer
The changes to the Protection of Badgers Act (PoBA) effected by the Planning and Infrastructure Bill would permit licences for the purpose of preserving public health or safety or for reasons of overriding public interest, to kill or take badgers, or to i...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-04/97313
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1860367
- uk · wq-1860367 · source updated 10 December 2025