§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West of 18 July,Official Report, columns 510–11, if he will indicate in respect of the total number of bird deaths reported to his Department between 1 January 1979 and 30 June 1988, the percentage represented by those known to have been killed by the use of poisoned bait.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth75 per cent.
§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West of 18 July,Official Report, columns 510–11, if he will indicate for each species of bird listed those cases reported to his Department by owners or occupiers of land and those reported by other parties.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information asked for is not available, in that reports are very often made at second hand and the records held by my Department's wildlife incident investigation service do not always contain information as to the persons making the first report of the finding of carcases of birds.