PIGEONS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Early day motion 230, tabled 22 January 2001 by Lord Stratford (Labour). Signed by 9 members.

That this House congratulates Mr Bernard Raynor for yet again securing a stay of execution on his selling of pigeon corn in Trafalgar Square; notes that Mr Raynor's family have been working in the square for five decades and that the gentle feral pigeons have come to rely on this food source; calls upon the Mayor to take up the offer made by the Pigeon Control Advisory Service last August to assist him in reducing pigeon numbers through humane methods rather than starving them to death, an offer the Mayor has not yet deemed fit to take up; reminds the Mayor he has no mandate to remove the pigeons; and suggests that he seeks a compromise acceptable to animal welfare organisations and Londoners who are angry and upset by his high-handed and arrogant attitude.

Signatures by party: Labour 6, Liberal Democrat 3.