§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing his assessment of the disaggregated contribution made to the increase since 1979 in greenhouse effect cases from(a) the electricity generating sector, (b) transport, (c) agriculture and (d) the industrial sector; and if he will make a statement on his Department's policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from United Kingdom sources.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyEmissions of carbon dioxide for each year since 1977 for the different sectors will be 563W given in the Department's "Annual Digest of Environment Protection and Water Statistics", to be published later this month. Copies will be placed in the Library of the House.
The Government are actively supporting the international efforts to tackle the greenhouse effect, which is a global problem. Our policy is to press ahead with improving our scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect and meanwhile to take actions to mitigate it which are justifiable on additional grounds. We have called for a cut of at least 85 per cent. in worldwide emissions of CFCs by the turn of the century. To take this proposal forward my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will participate in a conference next month which is to be hosted by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on "Saving the ozone layer".