HC Deb 06 March 1992 vol 205 cc316-7W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many proposals for special protection area designation have been formally submitted to his Department by the statutory conservation agencies or transferred from the Department of the Environment and not yet progressed to designation; and if he will list the dates on which those submissions were made.

Mr. Nicholas Bennett

The department has four proposals for special protection area designation which have not yet progressed to designation. They were all transferred from the Department of the Environment on 13 January 1992.