§ Mr. John Stradling Thomasasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the cost to British agriculture of depredation by the following agricultural pests: (a)rabbits, (b)moles, (c)rats, (d)coypu and (e)pigeons.
§ Mr. BishopThere is no provision for the notification of these details to my Department, and I cannot offer realistic estimates of the cost either of actual losses or of potential losses avoided by current control measures.