Owner Occupation: Bats
Commons · Question 76208 · Tabled 9 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to issue guidance for homeowners who discover bats in their property.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 17 Sep 2025
All bats, including their breeding sites and resting places, are protected under UK and international law. This strict legal protection makes it an offence to deliberately capture, injure, or kill bats; to damage or destroy a breeding or resting place; or...