§ 55. Mr. SkinnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the Government's response to the Brundtland Commission report on environment and development issues.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe Government's commitment to sustainable development is set out in the United Kingdom response of July 1988 to the Brundtland report and in a progress report, "Sustaining our Common Future", produced recently by the Department of the Environment. Copies of both documents are in the Library. Among the things they show is how, through the aid programme, we are working to promote sustainable economic and social progress and alleviate poverty in developing countries.