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Originally Posted by paulthomas  ...............
Under the best possible conditions in an area with hard boundaries, culling will be 4 to 5 times as expensive as compensation. So for each £million saved in compensation £4 million+ will have to be spent on culling. That's the economics of stupidity.
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Agreed, if it is correct but where are you getting this information from please paul?
Also the figure paid out in compensation is by no means the entire cost of a breakdown. Bourne put the average cost of a breakdown at £27,000 with costs split 70:30 taxpayer:farmer affected. He`also noted that other parties had refused to develop an average figure since there was such a wide variation.
I also believe that changes to the compensation rules may have altered the proportions of costs slight to the taxpayers favour.
Regards
mac