§ Mr. MorleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to designate the Humber estuary a Ramsar site and a special protection site under the European Community directive.
§ Mr. BaldryI cannot forecast when the Humber estuary will be designated. As is the case with a number of sites currently being considered by Government, officials are seeking to identify apparent problems or conflicts of interest that need to be examined, in the light of the scientific evidence put forward by the Nature Conservancy Council.