§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list those woodlands by county sold off by the Forestry Commission over which the Church Commissioners retained rights and regarding which the Church Commissioners were consulted prior to the sale for each year since 1981. [2409]
§ Mr. AlisonHigh Plumps wood, a 20-acre wood on the York estate in the county of Yorkshire leased to the Forestry Commission, was sold to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1991 as part of the site for the Central Scientific Laboratory. The Forestry Commission surrendered its lease and the commissioners retained the mineral rights.
Repton Shrubs, a 118-acre woodland on the Foremarke estate in the county of Derbyshire was sold by the commissioners in 1993 subject to a tenancy of 999 years to the Forestry Commission. The site was sold subject to existing rights of way, wayleaves and easements and included the sporting rights, subject to the existing sporting lease.
Details of other relevant sites which have been sold are not currently available, but I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as they are available.
§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list those woodlands by county currently owned or leased by50W the Forestry Commission in respect of which the Church Commissioners have (i) third party rights and (ii) own the freehold. [2410]
§ Mr. AlisonThe Commissioners own the freehold of the following woodlands which are leased to the Forestry Commission:
County Name Acreage Cambridgeshire Salome Wood, Leighton Bromswold 58.09 Derbyshire Foremarke Estate Woods 290.48 Staffordshire Bishop's Wood Plantation 869.48 Yorkshire Ampleforth and York Forests (which includes Hagg Wood); Kilburn and Sand Hutton Woods Yorkshire Millington Wold 50.17 Yorkshire World's End, Stockton on Forest 52.15 Yorkshire Cawood and Wistow Woods 786.15 Total 2,752.92