HC Deb 25 January 1940 vol 356 c774
55. Mr. W. Roberts

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether county war agricultural executives have powers to compel owners of woods to destroy rooks, or to allow the representative of such committees to do so?

Sir R. Dorman-Smith

Executive committees have no such powers at the present time but the question of a further delegation to those committees of the powers conferred on me by Regulation 63 of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, is under consideration.