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Birds: Pest Control

Commons · Question 16828 · Tabled 28 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 6 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for (a) killing and (b) taking certain species of wild birds (i) in (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023 and (ii) since general license 42 was updated on 1 January 2024.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 6 Dec 2024

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions at criminal courts in England and Wales between January 2021 and June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Crimina...