§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the role of the global environmental research office and database established at the Science and Engineering Research Council headquarters in Swindon.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthThe United Kingdom global environmental research office, which is jointly funded by the five research councils and housed by the Natural Environment Research Council in Swindon, acts as a focal point for the provision and dissemination of information on United Kingdom and international GER science and policy developments, and as a contact point for equivalent offices in other countries. It provides the secretariat for the 323W United Kingdom inter-agency committee on global environment change and maintains a database of United Kingdom GER research activities.