§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what study his Department has made of the wildlife benefits to be accrued from the cessation of drainage and subsequent withdrawal of land protected by sea defences and brought into agricultural use by land reclamation since 1955, adjacent to coastlines; and if he will make any such research available in the Library.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneMy Department has not carried out any such study. The Nature Conservancy Council is currently investigating the effects on wildlife of land reclamation over the past 10 years. The first results of this research are not expected to be available until some time in 1986.