Mr. John Condon:

I cannot give a definitive figure for that. Fewer than half of the stray horses we have collected over the years were microchipped. Where they have been microchipped, we scan them, and in some cases, that has helped us trace the owner. If a horse had, for example, escaped and disappeared, the microchip has often helped us reunite it with its owner, although we would charge for the cost of collecting and minding it and so on. The ones we have found to have strayed make up a low percentage. I expect there to be a higher degree of compliance for horses that are owned by people who are legitimately in the horse business, but they would not come across our radar because they would not be strays.