§ Mr. Ennalsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether any agricultural or forestry grants were paid to any owners of the four nature conservation review sites, Wintringham Marsh, North Yorks, Clehonger Meadow, Hereford and Worcester, Kilquockadale Flow, Dumfries and Galloway and Southern Parphe, Highlands to support agricultural improvements or forestry work.
§ Mr. WigginI have been asked to reply.
Drainage work at Wintringham Marsh was grant aided in November 1974, under the farm capital grant scheme before the site was scheduled as a site of special scientific interest. No capital or forestry grants have been paid on works on the other sites listed, but the site at Kilquockadale Flow was purchased for afforestation by the Forestry Commission in 1962. Apart from an area of about 20 acres of unplantable land it had been planted or ploughed for planting before the proposal for the site of special scientific interest was notified in 1971 and the Nature Conservancy Council was so informed at the time.