Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the number of endangered and protected birds of prey which have been killed by owners of grouse moors or their employees in the most recent year for which figures are available; and how many of those incidents resulted in a prosecution.
The Health and Safety Executive publishes statistics of reported pesticide incidents involving wildlife under the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS). Maps of birds of prey poisoning in England and Wales were last published in 2013. The UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) gathers intelligence on crimes against wildlife. Prosecution statistics do not identify either the nature of the defendant’s profession, the nature of the habitat or the specific species concerned.