HC Deb 19 July 1999 vol 335 cc381-4W
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the respondents to the recent consultation paper on the use of lead shot over wetlands. [91274]

Mr. Meale

My Department received 270 representations from members of the public in addition to those organisations that are listed in the table.

  • A and C Sporting Services
  • Amber Valley Shooting Club
  • Ancholme Internal Drainage Board
  • Anglian Wildfowlers Association
  • Ashman Brothers Pest Control
  • Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland
  • Association of European Manufacturers of Sporting Ammunition
  • Audley Gun Club
  • Bantham Shoot
  • Baxter Farms Ltd.
  • Beccles Wildfowlers Club
  • Black Isle and Mid Ross Wildfowlers Club
  • Blairs Shooting Syndicate
  • Blakeney Parish Council
  • Bournemouth International Airport
  • British Association for Shooting and Conservation
  • Butterfly Conservation, Norfolk Branch
  • Caerlaverock and District Wildfowlers
  • Carmarthenshire Wildfowlers Association
  • Carter Jonas
  • Chichester Harbour Wildfowlers Association
  • Church Farm Shoot
  • Council of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Country Landowners Association
  • Countryside Alliance
  • Countryside Council for Wales
  • CSC Forest Products
  • Dacre, Son and Hartley
  • Defence Estates, Estates Directorate
  • Derwent Valley Shooting Club
  • Devon Wildfowlers Association
  • Didwells Property Consultants
  • Dorset Wildfowlers Association
  • East Grinstead Guns Ltd.
  • English Nature
  • Essex and Suffolk Water
  • Essex Joint Council of Wildfowling Clubs
  • Farmers Union of Wales
  • Farming News, Miller Freeman UK Ltd.
  • Fenland Wildfowlers Association
  • Finlayson Hughes Chartered Surveyors
  • Forest Enterprise
  • Forestry Commission
  • Furness Wildfowlers Association
  • Fylde Borough Council
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  • Gamebore Cartridge Company Ltd.
  • Garnffoi Shooting and Conservation Club
  • Gillingham Estate and Farms
  • Gunners Pigeon Shooting Club
  • Hendry, Ramsat and Wilcox
  • Highbridge, Huntspill and Burnham District Wildfowlers' Club
  • Holderness and Humber Wildfowlers Association
  • Holland and Holland Ltd.
  • Humber Wildfowlers
  • Ilchester Estates
  • Isle of Anglesey Wildfowling Club
  • ITRI Ltd.
  • Joint Nature Conservation Council
  • Keadby Wildfowling and Conservation Society
  • Kent Wildfowling and Conservation Association
  • King's Lynn Consortium of Internal Drainage Boards
  • Little Oakley and District Wildfowlers Association
  • Lleweni Shoot Syndicate
  • Longfield Service Station
  • Lyddington Shoot
  • Lymington and Keyhaven Wildfowlers Association
  • Meltham Shooting Club
  • Merevale and Blyth Estates
  • Montrose and District Wildfowlers Association
  • Morston Wildfowlers
  • National Farmers' Union
  • National Farmers' Union of Scotland
  • Netley Shoot
  • Newark and District Wildfowlers Association
  • Newton-le-Willows Wildfowlers and Clay Pigeon Association
  • Norfolk Wildlife Trust
  • North Yorkshire County Council
  • Northumberland and Durham Wildfowlers
  • Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
  • Owlpen Estate Shoot
  • Pagham and West Sussex Wildfowling and Conservation Association
  • Paslow Hall Shoot
  • Payne's Boatyard
  • Pearce Waterscapes
  • Perth and Kinross Council
  • R. Tilney and Son
  • Rainford Shooting Association
  • Reaseheath (PAS) Sporting Shooting Club
  • Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Scottish Association for Country Sports
  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • Scottish Landowners' Federation
  • Scottish Natural Heritage
  • Shooting Sports Trust Ltd.
  • Shropshire and Border Rough Shooting Club
  • Shropshire County Council
  • Smiths Gore Chartered Surveyors
  • Somerset Wildlife Trust
  • Scottish Countryside Alliance
  • South Essex Wildfowlers' Club
  • South Hams District Council
  • South Hetton Wildfowl and Gun Club
  • South Lincs Nature Reserves Ltd.
  • Southport and District Wildfowlers Association
  • Spalding and District Wildfowlers Association
  • Stanford Training Area Shooting Association
  • Stoneham Wildfowlers
  • Strutt and Parker Chartered Surveyors
  • Tamar Valley Association for Shooting and Conservation
  • Tayport Wildfowling and Clay Pigeon Gun Club
  • Technical Marine Services
  • The British Shooting Sports Council
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  • The Broads Authority
  • The Clay Pigeon Shooting Association Ltd.
  • The Cumbria Wildlife Trust
  • The Engie Hundred Wildfowling Club
  • The Durrington Shoot
  • The Game Conservancy Trust
  • The Grove Shooting Club
  • The Gun Trade Association
  • The Hartlepool and District Wildfowlers Association
  • The Moorland Association
  • The Moreton Shoot
  • The National Gamekeepers' Organisation
  • The National Trust for Scotland
  • The Roche Abbey Syndicate
  • The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland
  • The Scottish Gamekeepers Association
  • The Weld Estate
  • The Welsh Assembly
  • Tillingham Wildfowlers Association
  • Tornashean Sporting Syndicate
  • Treloweth Shoot
  • UCW Aberystwyth SC, Mawddach and District
  • Union of Country Sports Workers
  • Welsh Local Government Associations
  • West Baldridge Shooting Syndicate
  • West Country Guns
  • Whitemoor Estate
  • Whittlesey Wildfowlers and Conservationists
  • Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what evidence his Department has assessed linking mortality of wildfowl and the ingestion of lead shot. [91262]

Mr. Meale

The toxic effects of ingested lead on birds have been known for over a century, and reported from many sources around the world. It would not be possible to list all the published research, but a selection of key papers is listed.

The reference texts are: Bellrose, F. C. 1959. Lead poisoning as a mortality factor in waterfowl populations. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 27, 235–288 Fawcett D. & van Vessem J. 1995. Lead poisoning in waterfowl: international update report 1995. JNCC Report No. 252., Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. Goode, D. A. 1981. Lead poisoning and swans. Report of the Nature Conservancy Council's Working Group. Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough. HMSO 1983. Lead in the environment. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: Ninth Report. HMSO, London. Locke, L. N. & Friend, M. 1992. Lead poisoning of avian species other than waterfowl. In: Pain 1992. Mudge, G. P. 1983. The incidence and significance of ingested lead pellet poisoning in British wildfowl. Biological Conservation, 27, 333–372. Olney, P. J. S. 1968. The food and feeding habits of pochard. Biological Conservation, 1, 71–76. Olney, P. J. S. 1960. Lead poisoning in wildfowl. Wildfowl Trust Annual Report, 11, 123–134, cited in Thomas 1975. Pain, D. J. 1992a. Lead poisoning in waterfowl: a review. In: Pain 1992. Pain, D. J. 1992b. Lead poisoning in waterfowl: summary of national reports: In: Pain 1992. Pain, D. J.1992c (ed). Lead poisoning of waterfowl: Proc. of IWRB workshop 1991. IWRB Special Publication No. 16, International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau, Slimbridge. Pain, D. J. 1991. Why are lead-poisoned wildfowl so rarely seen: the disappearance of waterfowl carcasses in the Carmargue, France? Wildfowl, 42, 118–122. Pain, D. J., Amaird-Triquet, C., Bavoux, C., Burneleau, G., Eon, L. & Nicolau-Guillaumet, P. 1993. Lead poisoning in wild populations of marsh harriers Circus aeruginosus in the Carmargue and Charente-Maritime, France. Ibis, 135, 379–386. Sanderson, G. C. 1992. Lead poisoning mortality: In: Pain 1992. Thomas, G. J. 1975. Ingested lead pellets in waterfowl at the Ouse Washes, England 1968–1973. Wildfowl, 26, 43–48. Sears, J & Hunt, A. 1991. Lead Poisoning in Mute Swans Cygnus olor in England. Wildfowl, Supplement 1 (1991): 383–388.