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Mr. Roy Hughes
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many badgers have been killed in connection with the campaign against bovine tuberculosis in each year from 1986 to 1990 and so far in 1991; what has been the cost annually of this campaign; and what proposals he has to continue it.
Mr. Maclean
The number of badgers killed as part of official badger removal operations in 1986 to 1990 were as follows:
Number | |
1986 | 782 |
1987 | 711 |
1988 | 788 |
1989 | 727 |
1990 | 811 |