HC Deb 08 December 2003 vol 415 c264W
Mrs. Spelman

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Environment and Heritage Service report, The Status of Strangford Lough Modiolus Communities will be published. [142023]

Angela Smith

This report is an interim report by Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) under contract to the Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) of the Department of the Environment.

It is part of a wider investigation into the ecological status of Strangford Lough. The report will set out the results of a diving survey of Strangford Lough undertaken in summer 2003.

The report is not yet finalised but it is expected to be published shortly on the EHS internet site (http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/pubs/pubs.shtml). A copy will be placed in the Library.