§ Mr. Martyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 6 November,Official Report, column 525, on a definition of permaculture, what non-statutory definitions of permaculture are employed by his Department in its dealings with other bodies. [9213]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe new shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines "permaculture" as
An agricultural ecosystem intended to be complete and self-sustaining".