§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the progress of his plans for the change of status of national nature reserves.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe Government have no plans to change the status of national nature reserves. The Nature Conservancy Council is considering how future policy for national nature reserves can continue to be developed in the light of both the council's preliminary report which was published in May this year, and of the Government's proposals to reorganise the Nature Conservancy Council which were announced in July.