§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the criteria used by the Nature Conservancy Council in the selection of land for notification as a site of special scientific interest; and when these criteria were last reviewed.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneAn explanatory paper describing the criteria used by the Nature Conservancy Council in the selection of sites of special scientific interest is available 443W from the council on application. A copy was placed in the Library of the House last year. The criteria were last reviewed in 1979.