Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 3:35 pm on 24 June 2008.
Andrew Robathan
Opposition Deputy Chief Whip (Commons)
3:35,
24 June 2008
I beg to move,
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to permit the disturbance of bats and newts for specified purposes;
and for connected purposes.
I should at the outset declare an interest, as I have been a member of the World Wildlife Fund, now called the World Wide Fund For Nature, longer than I have been a member of the Conservative party.
