Labour

Tory-led Government's plan to spend £375,000 of taxpayer's money on a buzzard management project - Creagh

Mary Creagh MP, Labour’s Shadow Environment Secretary, commenting on the Tory-led Government’s plan to spend £375,000 of taxpayer’s money on a buzzard management project, said:

“The restoration of the buzzard population has been a real success in recent years. It is astounding that Defra are wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax-payers' money disrupting this protected species.
 
“This out-of-touch Government’s priority is protecting the interests of large commercial shooting estates and non-native pheasant, rather than protecting our country’s native species. The Government should drop this plan now. This has all the hallmarks of another Defra shambles.”