asked Her Majesty's Government:Why of the seven sites notified to the European Commission on 31st August 1982 under the terms of Article 4 of the EC Directive 79/409 only two include the full area of the SSSI and when will the remaining areas of the Loch Druidibeg A'Machair, Moor House Ribble estuary, Orfordness and Havergate and Swale sites be notified to the Commission.

Pre-notification consultations with owners and occupiers can be complex and time-consuming, and in order to minimise delays it was decided, as a first step, to proceed with the notification of areas owned by the Nature Conservancy Council or where owners were known to be agreeable to notification. These areas were, in some cases only, part of a larger Site of Special Scientific Interest.The Swale site will be notified in the very near future. Notification of the remaining sites to which the noble Lord refers is linked to the SSSI notification programme, and details of these will be forwarded to the Commission for listing as soon as they have been notified or renotified by the Nature Conservancy Council. It is anticipated that the programme will be largely complete by the end of 1987.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether EEC nationals who are studying in public or private institutions in the United Kingdom are deemed to be exercising their rights to the receipt of services as provided by Community Law.

Students attending universities, public sector higher education or non profit-making institutions would not be deemed to be exercising any rights conferred by the provision in Article 59 of the Treaty of Rome relating to the freedom to provide services. This is because Article 60 provides that services shall only be considered to be services within the meaning of the treaty where they are normally provided for remuneration. Certain rights would, however, be obtained in the case of students attending commercial institutions.

asked Her Majesty's Government:—Whether they will make a statement about the Government's plans for overseas student support when the provision made under the "Pym package" comes to an end in April 1986.

We believe that our policy of targeted support is very much in the national interest. We have, therefore, made financial provision to continue support for overseas students beyond 1985–86 along the lines of that made under the "Pym package". Given the current financial constraints, the provision has had to be reduced somewhat. Exact details for 1986–87 have yet to be decided. Nevertheless, it is intended that the support will continue to be made to the three country/territory schemes for Cyprus, Malaysia and Hong Kong and for certain other Dependent Territories. Additional support to the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Scholarships and Awards Scheme and to the British Council's work for the promotion of British higher education overseas will also continue.