To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those representations he has received (a) welcoming and (b) opposing his plans to dismember the Nature Conservancy Council.

[holding answer 7 December 1989]: My Department has received a large number of representations, about the proposals to reorganise the Nature Conservancy Council. It is not possible to allocate these in a meaningful way to the precise categories envisaged by the hon. Member. A number of representations contained elements both of support and of criticism.