§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in theOfficial Report the research activities sponsored by his Department into global warming; and what information he has regarding scientific and policy research currently under way by (a) non-governmental organisations and (b) university and polytechnic research departments into ways of predicting and mitigating the greenhouse effect.
§ Mr. BaldryFull details of every research project commissioned under the Department's global atmosphere research programme this year are currently being collected together in a single report which I expect to be placed in the Library of the House next month. The largest single project is the climate prediction programme at the Hadley Centre, Bracknell, which includes a specific requirement to liaise and co-ordinate with all relevant research both in the United Kingdom and abroad. There are in addition some484W specific projects on the impacts of climate upon water resources, and building and construction sponsored in other DOE programmes.
My Department represents relevant research interests and responsibilities of the Government on the inter-agency council for global environmental change which published its first report on the United Kingdom research framework this year. Copies have been placed in the Library of the House. My Department is represented on the relevant research councils and received many reports and documents on research carried out by non-governmental organisations, at higher education institutes and by independent research institutes and organisations.