§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy at the next Council of European Transport Ministers to take steps to initiate a research programme to combat the effects on greenhouse global warming from the transport sector in the European Economic Community.
§ Mr. AtkinsFollowing the June Council of Environment Ministers, the European Commission is already committed to looking into methods of controlling carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. There is also a wider intergovernmental panel on climatic change which is examining the greenhouse effect in a more global context.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy to evaluate the recommendation made in the sixth report of the Energy Select Committee that a full study be made of the implications for the greenhouse effect of the present transport modes, and of increased road use by the year 2000.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe Government will give a full response to the Select Committee's recommendations in due course.