the motion. It strikes me that many who have spoken in its favour have done so having assumed for themselves the mantle of majority support and that the country is behind them, but I can tell hon. Members that my constituents are not behind the motion. I can say that with some authority, because I surveyed some 30,000 households over the summer and one of the questions I asked was whether they were in favour of the Government's approach to pilot culls to tackle bovine TB, and the results were that 59% were in favour of pilot culls, 27% were against and the others did not voice an opinion. The reasons why a majority of almost 2:1 of my constituents are in favour of the Government's courageous policy are simple and have been rehearsed many times during this debate: the huge loss of our cattle -- some 26,000 last year; the huge expense to the taxpayer of almost 100 million last year and 1 billion over the next decade, if this is left unchecked; and a cost for every farm where there is an outbreak of 30,000, of which 10,000 is borne by the farmer. This is unsustainable; it cannot be allowed to continue. As many hon. Members have said, there is a human cost to farmers, their families and the communities in which they live. That cannot be underestimated. One of my most special constituents is Mr Brian Warren, who runs a voluntary organisation called Farm Crisis Network, which