HC Deb 31 January 1983 vol 36 c40W
Mr. Hardy

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the sites put forward as special protection areas to the European Commission on 31 August 1982 under paragraph 1(1)(a) of the Council resolution relating to directive 79/409.

Mr. Macfarlane

The following initial special protection areas were notified to the Commission on 31 August 1982:

Name Area
Loch Druidibeg, A'Machair, South Uist, Western Isles 1,043 ha
Rhum, Highland region 10,684 ha
Moor House, Cumbria 3,894 ha
Ribble Estuary, Lancashire 2,182 ha
Skomer, Dyfed 292 ha
Orfordness—Havergate, Suffolk 117 ha
Swale, Kent 113 ha