§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what meetings his Department's Green Minister has attended in the last 12 months in that role. [165443]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe Department's Green Minister is a member of the ENV(G) Cabinet sub-committee and of the sustainable development taskforce. It has been established practice under successive Governments not to disclose information relating to the proceedings of Cabinet committees. This practice is now formalised by Exemption 2 of Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government information.
The Green Minister met representatives of the Sustainable Development Commission in October 2003.