Countryside and Rights of Way Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 4:00 pm on 16 October 2000.

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Photo of Baroness Carnegy of Lour Baroness Carnegy of Lour Conservative 4:00, 16 October 2000

The Minister says that statutory management schemes are a long way down the road and that voluntary schemes will be the norm. He indicated that the statutory schemes will come into force only when it is not possible to reach agreement. I can understand that.

But will the Minister tell the Committee what proportion of the acreage or hectarage of SSSIs the Government anticipate will be involved in statutory schemes? They must have thought about that because of the costs involved and so on. I should just like a picture of what will be the impact of the statutory schemes. Can he give the Committee any information in relation to that?