HL Deb 22 July 2004 vol 664 c91WA
Lord Williams of Elvel

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What work is being undertaken by government-sponsored science laboratories to monitor the increasing resistance of rats to anticoagulant rodenticides; how that work, if any, is funded; and what bearing the resistance has on the possibility of an outbreak of plague. [HL3613]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty)

Defra has funded several projects on this issue.