§ 56. Mr. E. L. Mallalieuasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on how many occasions lands of occupiers who have not destroyed their rabbits have been entered to enable the destruction to be carried out; what machinery there is for reporting the presence of rabbits on land; and how many times it has been used in Lincolnshire.
§ Mr. GodberSince the autumn there have been seventeen occasions when land has been entered to destroy rabbits after the occupier had ignored requests to carry out his statutory obligations under the Pests Act, 1954. My Department's pests staff carry out regular surveys in search of rabbits, frequently with the help of local voluntary committees of farmers and others. Surveys are constantly going on in Lincolnshire.