Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 18 June 2009.
We do not collect the figures, but I know that a significant number of churches—mainly rural ones—are coping successfully with bats, as they have done for centuries. Cleaning and protecting contents costs volunteers time and money; in some cases even that is not enough, and the bats cause damage and create hygiene problems.