Part of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 21 June 2005.
Jim Knight
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity)
11:15,
21 June 2005
I ask the hon. Gentleman to recall the notion that, as with all public bodies, Natural England would have to act reasonably and within its purposes. I suggest that using Crown immunity to escape damage to the SSSIs that it looks after would not be reasonable or within its purposes.
