Select Committee Recommendations

HC Deb 08 June 1993 vol 226 cc188-90W

Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many Select Committee recommendations have been made about his Department since April 1989; and how many have been accepted.

Mr. Gummer

Since April 1989 the Environment Select Committee has published 27 reports. Details, together with the relevant Government responses, are as follows:

SESSION 1988–89 Fourth Special Report: Department of the Environment's Main Estimates 1989–90: Observations by the Government on the Third Report of the Committee in Session 1988–89 (HC 564), published 9 August 1989. Third Report: Department of the Environment's Main Estimates 1989–90 (HC 305), published 4 July 1989. Government Reply published as the Committee's Fourth Special Report, Session 1988–89—see above. Fourth Report: Property Services Agency Main Estimates 1989–90 (HC 403), published 10 July 1989. Government Reply published as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 1989–90—see below. Fifth Report: British Waterways Board (HC 237), published 9 August 1989. Government Reply published as Cm. 967 on 6 February 1990. Sixth Report: Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste at Drigg (HC 562). published 14 August 1989. Government Reply published in the Official Report on 6 November 1989—Column 413. Seventh Report: The proposed European Environment Agency (HC 612), published 13 November 1989. Government Reply published in the Official Report on 8 January 1990—Columns 495–96.

SESSION 1989–90 First Special Report: Property Services Agency Main Estimates 1989–90: Observations by the Government on the Fourth Report of the Committee in Session 1988–89 (HC 290), published 30 March 1990. Second Special Report: Department of the Environment's Main Estimates 1990–91; Observations by the Government on the Third Report of the Committee in Session 1989–90 (HC 672), published 15 November 1990. First Report: Contaminated Land (HC 170), published 31 January 1990. Government Reply published as Cm 1161 on 25 July 1990. Second Report: European Community Environmental Policy (HC 372), published 17 May 1990. Government Reply published in the Official Report on 8 September 1990—Columns 495–96. Third Report: Department of the Environment's Main Estimates 1990–91 (HC 373), published 9 July 1990. Government Reply published as the Committee's Second Special Report, Session 1989–90—see above. Fourth Report: Pollution of Beaches (HC 12), published 24 July 1990. Government Reply published as Cm 1363 on 12 December 1990. Fifth Report: PSA Services and DOE Property Holdings Main Estimates 1990–91 (HC 414), published 2 August 1990. Government Reply published as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 1990–91—see below.

SESSION 1990–91 First Special Report: PSA Services and DOE Property Holdings Main Estimates, 1990–91: Observations by the Government on the Fifth Report of the Committee in Session 1989–90 (HC 164), published 7 February 1991. First Report: Environmental Issues in Northern Ireland (HC 39). Government Reply published as Cm 1484 on 26 March 1991. Second Report: Visit by the Committee to Brazil (HC 60), published 18 December 1990. Third Report: Climatological and Environmental Effects of Rainforest Destruction (HC 24), published 26 March 1991. Government Reply published as Cm 1579 on 28 June 1991. Fourth Report: DOE, Property Holdings and PSA Services Estimates 1991–92 and DOE Annual Report 1991 (HC 389), published 18 June 1991. Government Reply published as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 1991–92—see below. Fifth Report: London Zoo (HC 427), published 19 June 1991. Government Reply published in the Official Report 18 July 1991—column 240. Sixth Report: Indoor Pollution (HC 61-I and II), published 10 July 1991 (Volume II published 25 July 1991). Government Reply published as Cm 1633 on 11 September 1991. Seventh Report: The EC Draft Directive on the Landfill of Waste (HC 263-I and II), published 19 September 1991. Government Reply published as Cm 1821 on 5 February 1992. Eighth Report: Eco-Labelling (HC 474-I and II), published 5 September 1991. Government Reply published as Cm 1720 on 6 November 1991.

SESSION 1991–92 First Special Report: DOE Property Holdings and PSA Services Estimates 1991–92 and DOE Annual Report 1991: Observations by the Government on the Fourth Report of the Committee in Session 1990–91 (HC 16), published 19 November 1991. Second Special Report: Review of the Committee's Work 1983–1992 (HC 340), published 12 March 1992.l Government Reply published as DoE publication on 20 October 1992 available in the Library of the House. First Report: The Government's Proposals for an Environment Agency (HC 55, published 25 February 1992. Government Reply published partly in the Official Report on 15 July 1992—column 857—and partly as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 1992–93 (HC 256)—see below.

SESSION 1992–93 First Special Report: The Government Response to the Committee Report on the Environment Agency (HC 256), published 11 January 1993. First Report: Forestry and the Environment (HC 257—I and II), published 10 March 1993. Government Reply in preparation.