Written question asked by Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 9 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Anna Soubry (Conservative) on Thursday, 12 March 2015 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Cyprus

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many clearance operations there were to remove equipment used in the illegal killing of birds from the Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area in (a) September and (b) October of each of the last five years.

Answer

The information requested is provided in the following table.

	September				October
	Number of Anti Mist netting Operations[1]	Number of seized Mist nets	Number of seized Lime sticks	Number of Arrests	Number of Anti Mist netting Operations[2]	Number of seized Mist nets	Number of seized Lime sticks	Number of Arrests
2010-11	30 (6)	112	37	15	61 (7)	173	115	16
2011-12	52 (5)	159	193	10	32 (5)	161	97	10
2012-13	45 (4)	125	288	12	57 (5)	131	26	9
2013-14	32 (5)	116	468	18	29 (6)	99	48	3
2014-15	48 (4)	91	114	11	43 (8)	81	142	18

[1] Large scale clearance operations, possibly involving resources outside of the normal Sovereign Base Area (SBA) Police assets

[2] Large scale clearance operations, possibly involving resources outside of the normal SBA Police assets

Secondary information