HC Deb 15 October 1990 vol 177 cc627-8W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the letter of 9 July from the Minister for Overseas Development to the hon. Member for Linlithgow, if she will make a statement on the interim results of the strategic study she has commissioned on biological diversity in marine environments, with particular reference to work on reefs.

Mrs. Chalker

We are studying the first draft of the report that we commissioned on marine biological diversity. I shall let the hon. Member know the outcome.