underground, preventing a second shot (and preventing safe disposal of the carcass)." If the Secretary of State persists with the cull next year, I would urge him to use the next nine months to change the licence conditions and stop the free shooting of badgers. I desperately want to see a solution to the scourge of bovine TB. Sometimes we find it difficult to accept that we do not have a solution to a problem. Ultimately, I believe that oral vaccination of both cattle and badgers will bring us that solution, but any frustration at the lack of a current solution should not lead us to adopt a false solution. The proposed cull is a false solution, and I shall vote against it. The debate has unfortunately become perhaps a little polarised, but we have had a determination to focus on the science. The interesting thing is that the same scientists are being used -- if I might use that expression -- by both sides. Mr Cox , my near neighbour, has highlighted the issue as it was set out to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee . I am still a member of the Select Committee , and I have served on it since 2005. As the Chair of the Committee, Miss McIntosh , said earlier, we hope to look again at some of the vaccination issues in the near future. However, the main piece of work that the Select Committee carried out during that period was the