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Bovine Tuberculosis: Vaccination |
| Question ID: |
1729076 |
| UIN: |
HL993 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-09-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4953 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Roborough
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Lord Roborough
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what trials they intend to conduct and publish on the efficacy of vaccinating badgers in the wild against bovine tuberculosis, and its impact on transmission to cattle, before transitioning from culling to vaccination. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-09-23 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
There is already a significant evidence base which underpins the use of badger vaccination as a tool for the control of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Trials on captive badgers, modelling studies and field studies on wild badgers all indicate that badger vacci... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |