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To comment on issue of licences for importation of parrots & parrot-like birds & no of licences granted during each month in 1988 to most recent practicable date. - Includes list.

Asked by
Bob Cryer (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
144 c444-5W;144 c440W
House
House of Commons

To give criteria which SO professional staff will apply in determining extent of damage that has been or could have been caused by Greenland white fronted geese in considering individual applications to shoot such geese this winter & No of professional staff employed for this purpose.

Asked by
Elliot Morley (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
144 c472W;144 c467W
House
House of Commons

Whether & to what extent SO provides advice to landowners on methods that may justifiably be used to reduce or prevent the possibility of damage to grasslands or crops by Greenland white-fronted geese.

Asked by
Elliot Morley (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
144 c472W;144 c467W
House
House of Commons

If SO intends to issue licences under the provision of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 for the purpose of shooting Greenland white-fronted geese during the winter in order to reduce or prevent serious damage to improved grassland & crops & to give No of applications & No of guns...

Asked by
Elliot Morley (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 December 1988
Reference
144 c472W;144 c467W
House
House of Commons

What measures are available in Scotland to safeguard the feeding grounds of Arctic tern & what progress has been made in implementing them

Asked by
Margaret Ewing (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 1988
Reference
144 c356W;144 c351-2W
House
House of Commons

If there are now fewer pelicans in St. James's Park than there were a year ago, & if so, why; & if it is their policy to maintain nos at level of a year ago.

Asked by
Lord Stodart of Leaston (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 1988
Reference
502 c1359
House
House of Lords
1st supplementary on keeping up their nos.
Asked by
Lord Stodart of Leaston (Conservative)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 1988
Reference
502 c1359
House
House of Lords
Answered by
Earl of Caithness (Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
21 December 1988
Reference
502 c1359
House
House of Lords

To give those UK sites which qualify as important bird areas under the EEC birds directive, indicating those listed as special protection areas. - Includes table.

Asked by
Ron Davies (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 1988
Reference
144 c187-91W;144 c183-7W
House
House of Commons

If NERC has any plans to fund inter-disciplinary research into the interactions between seabirds, fish stocks & commercial fisheries in Shetland & neighbouring waters.

Asked by
Lord Cunningham of Felling (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Education and Science
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 December 1988
Reference
143 c571-2W;143 c573W
House
House of Commons

What tests have been carried out on game birds in areas of Northern Ireland affected by Chernobyl disaster & to give result of tests. - Includes fact that press statements issued in March 1987 & June 1988, including schedules of test results in Library.

Asked by
William Ross (Ulster Unionist Party)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 December 1988
Reference
143 c574W;143 c575-6W
House
House of Commons

Under what circumstances the killing of predatory birds by marine fish farmers is sanctioned by Scottish Office; to indicate the no. & species of birds so killed in each of the past 5 years.

Asked by
Norman A Godman (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 December 1988
Reference
143 c369-70W;143 c367W
House
House of Commons

To indicate what forms of assessment of the effects of predation by birds & seals at marine fish farms are taking place.

Asked by
Norman A Godman (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 December 1988
Reference
143 c369W;143 c367W
House
House of Commons

When HO last consulted Royal Society for Protection of Birds over use of its database to identify prosecution cases including killing, sale & smuggling of British birds of prey & other wild birds

Asked by
David Hinchliffe (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 December 1988
Reference
143 c206-7W
House
House of Commons

Seek obtain info from RSPB relating to prices commanded by illegally sold British birds of prey

Asked by
David Hinchliffe (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 1988
Reference
143 c12W
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Robert Jackson (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Education and Science
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
8 November 1988
Reference
140 c161-2;140 c163
House
House of Commons
When Sec of State last met chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council & what subjects were discussed.
Asked by
Lord Wallace of Tankerness (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Education and Science
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
8 November 1988
Reference
140 c161-2;140 c163
House
House of Commons

To give statutory powers which exist to regulate or control setting up, development & expansion of pheasant rearing units with regard to suitability of site, size of units, odour therefrom, control of any vermin attracted to site, fire precautions for gas cylinders for heating & storage requirements for feedstuffs -...

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 November 1988
Reference
139 c617W;139 c613W
House
House of Commons

What information is available on no of sea birds on Christmas Island since British nuclear tests.

Asked by
David Hinchliffe (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
31 October 1988
Reference
139 c528W;139 c523W
House
House of Commons

If DOE has made any evaluation of the effects on the breeding cycle of ravens in North Cumbria from their consumption of carrion from flocks of sheep with high uptake of radioactivity from the Chernobyl fallout.

Asked by
Lord Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 October 1988
Reference
139 c235W;139 c233W
House
House of Commons