Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to remove the European white-fronted goose from schedule 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

The Government intends to prohibit the hunting of Greenland white fronted goose by removing the species from schedule 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. I anticipate that the legislation will be laid this autumn.

There are no plans to remove the European white-fronted goose from schedule 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.