§ Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domerasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Whitty on 10 March (WA 152) in which he stated that research shows "increasing pesticide use may indirectly contribute to the decline of 20 species of song birds", whether they have plans to gather statistics on the sales of slug pellets. [HL4144]
§ Lord WhittyDefra does not collect statistics on the sale of pesticides and has no plans to collate information on slug pellet sales.