The debate is titled 'This House Believes that the Badger Cull Should Not Go Ahead'.
To rally support, we're asking members to email their local MP to ask them to vote against this motion and support the government's planned bTB control methods, which include the badger cull.
It’s vital that the strength of feeling around a disease which led to the needless slaughter of 38,000 cattle in Great Britain last year is driven home. Thousands of farmers are living with the daily threat of bovine TB hanging over their businesses and families and they need to see action taken now to help curb its spread.
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The debate will start after Prime Minister’s questions finish at 12.30pm, and can be watched live or later here.
UPDATE - The government has put forward the following amendment against the badger cull motion today (Wednesday)
The Prime Minister
The Deputy Prime Minister
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Secretary Owen Paterson
Mr David Heath
Leave out from ‘House’ to end and add ‘notes that bovine tuberculosis (TB) has, as a consequence of the lack of effective counter-measures, spread from a few isolated incidents to affect large parts of England and Wales, resulting in the slaughter of 28,000 cattle in England alone in 2012 at a cost of £100 million to the taxpayer; is concerned that 305,000 cattle have been slaughtered in Great Britain as a result of bovine TB in the last decade and that the cost is expected to rise to over £1 billion over the next 10 years; recognises that to deal effectively with the disease every available tool should be employed; accordingly welcomes the strengthening of bio-security measures and stringent controls on cattle movements; further welcomes the research and investment into both cattle and badger vaccines, and better diagnostic testing, but recognises that despite positive work with the European Commission the use of a viable and legal cattle vaccine has been confirmed to be still at least 10 years away; further notes that no country has successfully borne down on bovine TB without dealing with infection in the wildlife population, and that the Randomised Badger Control Trials demonstrated both the link between infection in badgers and in cattle and that culling significantly reduces incidence; looks forward to the successful conclusion of the current pilot culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset; and welcomes the Government’s development of a comprehensive strategy to reverse the spread of bovine TB and officially eradicate this disease.’.