Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Minutes of Evidence[Back to Report]

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 March 2005.

Wednesday 2 March 2005

Members present:

Paddy Tipping, in the Chair

Mr Colin Breed	Mr Michael Jack
Mr David Drew	Mr Bill Wiggin

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CONTENTS

Memorandum submitted by English Nature (Appendix 5)

Examination of Witnesses

Sir Martin Doughty, Chairman, Dr Andy Brown, Chief Executive and Dr Tom Tew, Regional Director SE, English Nature, examined.

Question Number

463-479

480-499

500-504

Supplementary memorandum submitted by English Nature (Appendix 5a)

Memorandum submitted by Campaign to Protect Rural England (Appendix 32)

Memorandum submitted by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Appendix 3)

Memorandum submitted by the Wildlife Trusts (Appendix 17)

Memorandum submitted by the Woodland Trust (Appendix 15)

Examination of Witnesses

Mr Tom Oliver, Head of Rural Policy, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Mr Graham Wynne, Chief Executive, RSPB, Ms Stephanie Hilborne, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trusts, and Dr Hilary Allison, Policy Director, Woodland Trust, examined.

505-519

520-523

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the CPRE, the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts and the Woodland Trust (Appendix 36)

Memorandum submitted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Appendix 26)

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Appendix 26a)

Examination of Witnesses

Lord Whitty, a Member of the House of Lords, Minister for Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy, Miss Oona Muirhead, Modernising Rural Delivery Programme Director, and Mr Brian Harding, Wildlife, Countryside and Land Use Director, Defra, examined.

Question Number

524-539

540-559

560-579

580-594

Further supplementary memorandum submitted by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Appendix 26b)

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Prepared 4 April 2005