§ Mr. Bodyasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will define the training areas or parts of training areas owned or controlled by him for the Army in Lincolnshire and Norfolk from which members of the public are totally excluded throughout the year, and in each case give the dates when the total exclusion of the public was authorised by him.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe general public are excluded from two areas where live firing takes place, namely, Beckingham ranges in Lincolnshire and Stanford principal training area, in Norfolk. The exclusion of the general public goes back many years; since the second World War at Stanford and from at least 1951 at Beckingham, and is for reasons of safety. Small parties of naturalists have visited Stanford on escorted tours at weekends.