| Heading: |
Gun Sports: Hares |
| Question ID: |
1812674 |
| UIN: |
59701 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
249 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of brown hares shot in England between February and October each year. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
Defra holds no official statistics on the number of brown hares shot in England between February and October each year. We are however aware of a number of estimates made by stakeholder groups which range markedly from the low tens of thousands to the low... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |