§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment why he has forbidden the Nature Conservancy Council from(a) acquiring shooting rights in the process of setting up nature reserves, and (b) giving grants to other bodies for purchasing lands which carry the shooting rights; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyIn considering land purchase proposals whether from themselves or by grant aid to NGOs, the NCC and the Government are agreed that traditional rights over uses of the land should be interfered with only when that use is incompatible with the interests of conservation.