§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, by date, any new policies he has announced since his appointment in either media interviews or at other public events.
§ Mr. HowardSince my appointment, and before it became possible to make announcements to the House, I announced the following new policies by way of press announcements: the provision of up to SI million to help rescue the non-governmental organisations' Global Forum taking place in Rio this month—press notice 295, dated 3 May; a 25 per cent. increase in recycling investment-press notice 283, dated 27 April; the United Kingdom's signature of the agreement to protect small cetaceans in the North and Baltic seas-press notice 298, dated 5 May.