§ Mr. TippingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list by county for countryside stewardship sites, the date when each site was designated and the date when each site's designation is due to be terminated.
§ Mr. Atkins[holding answer 30 January 1995]: The countryside stewardship scheme is operated by the Countryside Commission. Agreements under the scheme begin on 1 October of the relevant year, and normally run for ten years. Information supplied by the Countryside Commission on the sites currently under agreement in each of their administrative areas, together with the date of the commencement and termination of each agreement, is given in the table. Information on agreements entering the scheme in 1994 is provisional.
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Countryside commission regions and counties Number of countryside Stewardship agreements, and period of agreements (1994 figures provisional) 1 October 1991–30 1 October 1992–30 1 October 1993–30 1 October 1994–30 September 2001 September 2002 September 2003 September 2004 North West Cheshire 14 19 19 30 Greater Manchester 6 7 6 10 Lancashire 26 39 46 72 Merseyside 4 1 3 5 South East Berkshire 7 8 9 11 Buckinghamshire 18 18 10 15 East Sussex 16 18 9 10 Essex 23 18 8 16 Greater London 4 10 8 9 Hampshire 30 18 27 24 Hertfordshire 13 16 4 11 Isle of Wight 15 13 8 12 Kent 21 36 33 46 Oxfordshire 10 17 8 21 Surrey 11 15 8 13 West Sussex 22 13 5 4 South West Avon 8 24 15 6 Cornwall 46 73 35 9 Devonshire 35 100 52 55 Dorset 38 30 10 1 Gloucestershire 26 33 20 6 Somerset 27 25 20 8 Wiltshire 43 32 18 4 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside 20 20 23 15 North Yorkshire 76 102 50 10 South Yorkshire 1 14 10 1 West Yorkshire 2 10 15 3