§ Mrs. Jegerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what action has been
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associations building in the Rochdale metropolitan borough, (c) the North-West Region, and (d) housing associations building within that region; and how many of these proposals have been started and how many finished in each of the categories listed above.
§ Mr. ArmstrongFollowing is the available information based on returns by local authorities to my Department:
taken by Her Majesty's Government to follow up the decisions of the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm.
§ Mr. ShoreHer Majesty's Government have developed their domestic and international environmental policies and commitments taking account, wherever practicable, of the action plan to safeguard and enhance the human environment agreed at the 1972 United Nations conference on the Human Environment. The United Kingdom participates actively in the United Nations institutions established by the General Assembly as recommended by the conference. In particular, the United Kingdom is a permanent member of the governing council for the United Nations environment programme which has, from the outset, been responsible for the development of a programme 633W to implement the action plan and for stimulating activities by Governments and other international bodies to carry out this programme. The United Kingdom is a major donor to the Environment Fund, and actively supports relevant environmental programmes of other United Nations agencies, of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and of other international bodies whose activities in this field are co-ordinated through the United Nations Environmental Coordination Board.