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47584

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	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he was informed that cage trapping and shooting of badgers had been implemented alongside the free shooting of badgers within two days of the beginning of the pilot badger cull in Somerset in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	195749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Both controlled shooting and cage trapping and shooting methods were always available to the cull companies. There was no compulsion on the contractors to use a defined proportion of cage trapping and controlled shooting. How they used these two methods was a decision for them to make. As the pilot culls progressed, cull companies decided to use more cage trapping, as this technique was found to work well under certain circumstances. Ministers were kept informed of progress during the pilot culls from an early stage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 195747 195748 question first answered 15/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

47587

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons cage trapping and shooting of badgers was implemented during the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2013 when the culls were testing for effectiveness, humaneness and safety of free shooting.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	195747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Both controlled shooting and cage trapping and shooting methods were always available to the cull companies. There was no compulsion on the contractors to use a defined proportion of cage trapping and controlled shooting. How they used these two methods was a decision for them to make. As the pilot culls progressed, cull companies decided to use more cage trapping, as this technique was found to work well under certain circumstances. Ministers were kept informed of progress during the pilot culls from an early stage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 195748 195749 question first answered 15/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle