§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the sites of special scientific interest that he intends to introduce following their designation by the European Union for(a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland. [134127]
§ Mr. MullinThe selection of sites of special scientific interest is a devolved matter. In England statutory consultations on the notification or re-notification of 29 sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) are taking place in relation to possible special areas of conservation. These matters are being taken forward by English Nature to incorporate changes and additions in England to the UK list of candidate special areas of conservation transmitted, in accordance with the EC Habitats Directive, to the European Commission in July 1999. The sites are:
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SSSI Administrative Area Arnecliff and Park Hole Woods North Yorkshire Blackstone Point Devon Bolton Fell Moss Cumbria Braithwaite Moss Cumbria Carricknath Point to Porthbean Beach Cornwall Dew's Ponds Suffolk Ewefell Mire Cumbria Frome St Quintin Dorset Haggs Bank Cumbria Hestercombe House Somerset Humber Flats and Marshes: City of Kingston upon Hull Upper Humber East Riding of Yorkshire North Lincolnshire
SSSI Administrative Area Humber Flats and Marshes: North Lincolnshire Barton & Barrow Clay Pits Humber Flats and Marshes: North Lincolnshire The Grues Humber Flats and Marshes: North Lincolnshire Pyewipe and Cleethorpes Coast North East Lincolnshire Kirk Deighton North Yorkshire Little Wittenham Oxfordshire Lyppard Grange Ponds Worcestershire Mobberley and Oversley Ponds Cheshire Manchester Peter's Pit Kent River Itchen City of Southampton Hampshire River Kent and Tributaries Cumbria River Mease Derbyshire Leicestershire Staffordshire River Nent at Blagill Cumbria River Till Wiltshire Rochdale Canal Rochdale Tameside Sefton Coast Sefton St Austell Clay Pits Cornwall Whitesike Mine and Flinty Fell Cumbria Windsor Forest and Great Park Bracknell Forest Surrey Windsor & Maidenhead