HC Deb 07 March 1991 vol 187 cc278-9W
Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all land which was owned by the Forestry Commission and has been sold, for which local authorities have been able to enter into an access agreement; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The arrangements for access agreements which my right hon. and learned Friend, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, announced on 21 November 1990,Official Report, columns 164–66, have not yet been introduced.

Dr. David Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place in the Library a list of all land currently owned by the Forestry Commission on a county by county basis, giving the area of the land and stating the type of woodland or other type of countryside.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The Forestry Commission is organised administratively into seven conservancies and 57 forest districts; information cannot therefore be given by counties except at disproportionate cost. A summary of the land currently managed by the Forestry Commission is given by forest districts in tables 15, 16 and 17 of appendix XI to the commission's 1989–90 annual report, a copy of which is in the Library.