§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether, pursuant to his reply of 13 April,Official Report, column 667, he will ask working group I of the United Nations environmental programme/world meteorological organisation inter-governmental panel on climate changes to make an interim report on the climatological consequences of felling and burning of rain forest in the Brazilian state of Para and eastern Amazonia in the first four months of 1989.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyNo. The Government do not seek to interfere with the group's scientific work plan and reporting schedule agreed internationally by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. However, I understand that the hon. Member's particular concern about deforestation in eastern Amazonia is being addressed by the working group, which will report to the world climate conference in the autumn of 1990.