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Badger Culling And Control Of Bovine Tuberculosis

EDM number 1288 in 2007-08, proposed by Alan Meale on 31/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Animal diseases and Wildlife.

That this House is aware that currently the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is considering giving the go-ahead for a widespread cull of badgers in England and Wales, under the guise of helping to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle; believes that such a course of action would stand against the advice of the Government's own appointed Independent Scientific Group on the subject which concluded in its report that badger culling would make no meaningful contribution to cattle tuberculosis control in the UK; recalls that the Department's own recent public consultation on the subject prompted a record 47,472 responses, 95 per cent. of which opposed such actions, including responses from a number of key stakeholders such as the National Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and others who indicated that they will not allow such measures to be carried out on any of their land holdings; calls on the Government to listen instead to these views and learn from their expertise and concerns; and asks them not to authorise such action but instead to urge agricultural interests to focus their endeavours on other disease control methods including more vigorous testing of cattle and increased biosecurity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale31/03/2008MansfieldLabourProposed
Bill Etherington31/03/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Rudi Vis31/03/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore01/04/2008HendonLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes01/04/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley01/04/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Glenda Jackson01/04/2008Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
John Leech01/04/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing01/04/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Jeremy Corbyn01/04/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara01/04/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden01/04/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Bob Spink01/04/2008Castle PointIndependent ConservativeSigned
Bob Russell01/04/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams02/04/2008Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter02/04/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Linda Riordan02/04/2008HalifaxLabourSigned
Hywel Francis02/04/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Clive Efford02/04/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins02/04/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Desmond Turner02/04/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
John Pugh03/04/2008SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton03/04/2008GowerLabourSigned
Betty Williams03/04/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer21/04/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster21/04/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Vincent Cable21/04/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris McCafferty21/04/2008Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/04/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley22/04/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith23/04/2008Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Harry Cohen23/04/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay29/04/2008ThurrockLabourSigned
Elliot Morley30/04/2008ScunthorpeLabourSigned
David Crausby14/05/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Colin Challen20/05/2008Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Emily Thornberry04/06/2008Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
David Howarth02/07/2008CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned

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