Question follow-through · 16828
Birds: Pest Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for (a) killing and (b) taking certain species of wild birds (i) in (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023 and (ii) since general license 42 was updated on 1 January 2024.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for (a) killing and (b) taking certain species of wild birds (i) in (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023 and (ii) since general license 42 was updated on 1 January 2024.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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6 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions at criminal courts in England and Wales between January 2021 and June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Crimina...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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