§ Lord Beaumont of Whitleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they are proposing to take to inform the public on geodiversity issues following the closure of the periodical Geodiversity Update. [HL4322]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty)None. I understand that there is a variety of other sources of information on geodiversity issues. For example, the Association of United Kingdom Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Sites (RIGS) Groups publishes the UKRIGS Newsletter four times a year covering a range of issues including conservation. Earth Heritage is a twice-yearly magazine produced by English Nature, jointly with Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales. It covers geodiversity issues and geological conservation and is aimed at a wider audience. Geology Today is an independently produced journal also aimed at a wide audience and covering geodiversity issues as well as other related topics. A range of other journals and publications are produced by the British Geological Survey, the Geologists' Association and the Geological Society.