HC Deb 14 May 1991 vol 191 c63W
81. Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on his Department's policy for the conservation of the red squirrel.

Mr. Trippier

The red squirrel is fully protected against killing, injuring, taking and selling through its listing on schedule 5 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.