asked Her Majesty's Government:When a national list of sites will be sent to the European Commission under the Habitats Directive.
Following extensive local and national public consultation launched on 31 March, a first list of 136 candidate Special Areas of Conservation was sent on 20 June 1995 to the European Commission.This list covers only sites on land and those which are already SSSIs. Consultation on possible marine sites will continue until 22 June.The Secretary of State for the Environment will announce the submission of a further tranche of sites to the Commission as soon as points raised in the consultation exercise have been fully considered and resolved.A number of organisations have suggested additions to the list. These suggestions will be fully considered in accordance with the approach to site selection applied to the current list of possible sites and outlined in Section 3 of
A list of possible Special Areas of Consultation in the UK, which was published on 31 March and placed in the Libraries. If the nature conservation agencies, through the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, advise that any of these additions qualify as possible SACs, they will be published for consultation in due course. As indicated in my written reply to my honourable friend the Member for Eastbourne on 31 March, there will also be consultation on those sites proposed for certain habitats types and species where it is necessary first to complete further SSSI notifications or on which additional scientific information is being sought.
The list of sites which has been sent to the Commission is as follows:
| Amat Woods | Scotland |
| Ardmeanach | Scotland |
| Ballynahone Bog | N Ireland |
| Barry Links | Scotland |
| Beer Quarry and Caves | England |
| Benacre to Easter Bavents Lagoons | England |
| Berwyn | Wales |
| Birklands and Bilhaugh | England |
| Black Bog | N Ireland |
| Black Wood of Rannoch | Scotland |
| Blawhorn Moss | Scotland |
| Blean Complex | England |
| Borrowdale Woodland Complex | England |
| Braehead Moss | Scotland |
| Bredon Hill | England |
| Burry Inlet: Dunes/Cilfach Burry: Twyni | Wales |
| Cannock Extension Canal | England |
| Carrine Common | England |
| Castle Eden Dene | England |
| Castle Hill | England |
| Chilmark Quarries | England |
| Chilterns Beechwoods | England |
| Cockinhead Moss | Scotland |
| Coed y Cerrig | Wales |
| Coedydd a Cheunant Rheidol/Rheidol Woods | Wales |
| Coedydd Derw Meirion/Merionnydd Oakwoods | Wales |
| Coleg Glynllifon | Wales |
| Cors Caron | Wales |
| Cors Fochno | Wales |
| Corsydd Mon/Anglesea Fens | Wales |
| Cothill Fen | England |
| Craigengar | Scotland |
| Cranley Moss | Scotland |
| Creag nan Gamhainn | Scotland |
| Crymlyn Bog/Cors Crymlyn | Wales |
| Cuilcagh Mountain | N Ireland |
| Culbin Bar | Scotland |
| Culm Grasslands | England |
| Cym Cadlan | Wales |
| Derryleckagh | N Ireland |
| Drostre Bank | Wales |
| East Hampshire Hangers | England |
| Eastern Mournes | N Ireland |
| Ebernoe Common | England |
| Eilean na Muice Duibhe | Scotland |
| Elenydd | Wales |
| Eryri/Snowdonia | Wales |
| Fairy Water Bogs | N Ireland |
| Fenland | England |
| Feur Lochain | Scotland |
| Flow of Dergoals | Scotland |
| Gang Mine | England |
| Garron Plateau | N Ireland |
| Garry Bog | N Ireland |
| Glac na Criche | Scotland |
| Glannau Mon: Cors heli/Anglesey Coast: Saltmarsh | Wales |
| Glannau Mon: Twyni/Anglesey Coast: Dunes | Wales |
| Glanau Ynys Gybi/Holy Island Coast | Wales |
| Glen Coe | Scotland |
| Godrevey Head to St. Agnes | England |
| Great Orme's Head/Pen y Gogarth | Wales |
| Great Yews | England |
| Hascosay | Scotland |
| Helvellyn and Fairfield | England |
| Hill of Towanreef | Scotland |
| Holme Moor and Clean Moor | England |
| Hoy | Scotland |
| Inchnadamph | Scotland |
| Invernaver | Scotland |
| Isle of Wight Downs | England |
| Keen of Hamar | Scotland |
| Kenfig/Cynffig | Wales |
| Kilhern Moss | Scotland |
| Kingley Vale | England |
| Kirkcowan Flow | Scotland |
| Lewes Downs | England |
| Limestone seacliffs of S W Wales/Clogwyni Calchfaen De-Orllewin Cymru | Wales |
| Lismore Lochs | Scotland |
| Llangorse Lake/Llyn Syfaddan | Wales |
| Loch Watten | Scotland |
| Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs | England |
| Magheraveely Marl Loughs | N Ireland |
| Merrick Kells | Scotland |
| Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes | England |
| Mochrum Lochs | Scotland |
| Monadh Mor | Scotland |
| Monawilkin | N Ireland |
| Moniack Gorge | Scotland |
| Morrone Birk wood | Scotland |
| Mound Alderwoods | Scotland |
| Newham Fen | England |
| Norfolk Valley Fens | England |
| North Northumberland Dunes | England |
| North Pennine Dales Meadows | England |
| Oak Mere | England |
| Oldshoremore and Sandwood | Scotland |
| Oxford Meadows | England |
| Pasturefields Salt Marsh | England |
| Pembrokeshire bat sites/Safleoedd Ystlumod Penfro | Wales |
| Pettigoe Plateau | N Ireland |
| Pewsey Downs | England |
| Pitmaduthy Moss | Scotland |
| Prescombe Down | England |
| Preseli | Wales |
| Queendown Warren | England |
| Reidside Moss | Scotland |
| Rex Graham-Reserve | England |
| Rhinog | Wales |
| Rhos Goch | Wales |
| Rhos Llawr-cwrt | Wales |
| Rooksmoor | England |
| Rum | Scotland |
| Slieve Beagh | N Ireland |
| St. David's/Ty Ddewi | Wales |
| Staverton Park and the Thicks, Wantisden | England |
| Strath | Scotland |
| Stromness Heaths and Coast | Scotland |
| Tanat and Vyrnwy Bat Sites/Safleoedd Ystlumod Tanat ac Efyrnwy | Wales |
| Taynish Woods | Scotland |
| Teal Lough | N Ireland |
| The Mens | England |
| The New Forest | England |
| The Stipperstones and the Hollies | England |
| Thorne Moor | England |
| Thrislington | England |
| Tingon | Scotland |
| Tregonning Hill | England |
| Trotternish Ridge | Scotland |
| Tulach Hill and Glen Fender Meadows | Scotland |
| Tyne and Allen River Gravels | England |
| Upper Lough Erne | N Ireland |
| Wasdale Screes | England |
| West Midlands Mosses | England |
| Whitlaw and Branxholme | Scotland |
| Windsor Forest and Great Park | England |
| Wye and Crundale Downs | England |