HC Deb 10 May 1972 vol 836 c1306
31. Mr. David Clark

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what subjects he will seek to place on the agenda of the Stockholm Conference on the Environment.

The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Peter Walker)

An agenda has been prepared by the United Nations Conference Secretariat centred upon a plan for action on those environmental matters commanding the widest world interest. The Government look to the conference in particular for progress towards a global convention on marine pollution, the establishment of a workmanlike system for the exchange of environmental information and a dispassionate examination of major environmental issues.

Mr. Clark

Will the Minister raise at the Stockholm conference the subject of industrial obsolescence and the pollution problems connected with it? Many parts of the country suffer terribly from age-old industrial pollution, which is also a problem throughout Europe.

Mr. Walker

Yes, Sir. One of the major papers pat in by the British Government will deal with many aspects of this problem.