§ Mr. Tony ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will set out, including statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Northampton, South constituency, the effects on Northampton of her Department's policies and actions since June 2001. [100809]
§ Alun MichaelInformation and statistics on the effect of the Department's policies are not normally held on a parliamentary constituency basis. However, the latest information on regional progress in the national headline indicators of sustainable development were published by the Department in the second edition of the Regional quality of life report on 21 June 2002. This provides updated regional figures and analysis for 13 of the 15 headline indicators for each of the English Government Office Regions. The Government's third annual report on sustainable development in the UK—Achieving a better quality of life—was published by Defra on 24 February 2003. Both publications are available on the Government's sustainable development website: www.sustainable-development.gov.uk. A wide range of information about the Department's policies and work is also included in the Defra Publication Scheme which was introduced in November 2002 and is available on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk. The above mentioned reports have been placed in the Library of the House.
Data on river water quality at local authority level and air quality from local monitoring sites are available from the Defra and Environment Agency websites, and specifically at: LA-level river quality data on EPSIM website: http//www2.defra.gov.uk/db/rq/index.htm; EA "What's in your backyard "—includes rivers but not air quality: http//216.31.193.171/asp/1_introduction.asp and the Air Quality Archive at www.airquality.co.uk/archive/index.php.