With a reported increase in rats across the UK, the Express recently reported that the Government is suffering from its share of rodents. The lower house of Parliament has been deemed an unsuitable environment for a feline rodent wrangler.
The House of Commons is an 'unsuitable environment' for cats because of its out-of-control rat population.
According to the Express, the House of Commons’ request for a feline pest controller was turned down as the House of Commons is considered an unsafe environment for cats due to the amount of poisons on the premises being used to control a significant rodent problem.
In May Andrea Leadsom, former Leader of the House, told the Sunday Times that the place was “awash” with rats and mice and “if you left a half-eaten bowl of crisps out, they’d be munched by the next morning”.
Recent warmer temperatures in winter are thought to have contributed to the rise in the rodent population across the UK.
The British Pest Control Association estimates that there could be as many as 120 million rats in the UK – that’s double the human population.
And according to the Express, the cost of controlling pests in the House of Commons has risen from £58,000 in 2020/21 to a staggering £112,000 last year!
However, the spokesman said that at the Commons, 'the site was deemed to be an unsuitable environment for a cat due to the use of poisonous rodent traps.
The traps are toxic to cats as well as vermin and it would have been a clear health and safety risk for any cat residing in the area'.
Rodents scurrying around are a regular sight each evening in parts of the rambling 19th Century Palace of Westminster on the banks of the Thames.
Just as well, perhaps, that one regular feline visitor to the Parliamentary estate – the Commons Speaker's cat 'Attlee' – sticks mainly to Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's official quarters. Read more
Rats, Rats, Rats!
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