§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to reply to the report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities on "Paying for Pollution—Civil Liability for Damage Caused by Waste" (HL paper 84–1).
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 7 December 1990]: The report is to advise the House of Lords on questions of 276W policy or principle and the advisability of debate and the Committee Chairman, Lord Nathan, has now tabled a motion for such a debate. We have already told him that we shall be looking at the report in relation to the draft directive and our further development of policies in this field. We would, of course, contribute to any debate.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the EC proposal for a Council regulation on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community [Com(90)415 Final-SYN 305] published on 10 October.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 7 December 1990]: The Department will submit an explanatory memorandum to Parliament on this proposal in the near future.