HC Deb 11 June 1990 vol 174 cc4-5W
Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all the future environmental conferences, seminars and meetings which Ministers or officials in his Department will be attending in the next four months and the date of each.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

Over the next four months Ministers are to attend the following environmental conferences, seminars and meetings:

June
7–8 EC Environment Council (Luxembourg)
8 British Steel Tin Plate Environment Programme
12 92nd Annual Waste Management Conference
16 EC/Eastern Europe/EFTA Environment Meeting (Dublin)
19 National Council for Voluntary Organisations White Paper Seminar
20–24 Opening Green Show (Birmingham)
20–29 Second meeting of Montreal Protocol Parties (London)
21 International Building Bureau Conference on Energy Efficient Buildings (London)
21 Mineral Industry Research Organisation Conference on Mineral Wastes
24 Sevenoaks Summer Festival—Environmental Question Time
25 East Midlands Recycling City Seminar
26 Association of Municipal Engineers Annual Conference
27 Food, Industry and the Environment Conference
29 Fourth Environmental Education Conference for Secondary Schools
July
3 United Kingdom Environmental Law Association Conference on the Protection of the Rural Environment
4 Royal Society for the Arts Conference on The Future of the Countryside
9–10 European Parliament (Strasbourg)
10 Department of Trade and Industry Seminar on Waste
11–12 Meeting with senior officials at the OECD (Paris)
17 Engineers and the Environment Conference
August
1–3 Session of UNEP Governing Council (Nairobi)
September
10 Institution of Environmental Health Officers Congress
12 Landcape Conference on Landscape Design (Durham)
13 Business in the Environment Conference
18 UNEP Seminar on Clean Technology
20 International Conference on Acid Deposition and Implications
21 Royal Institute of Public Administration Conference on Greening the Administration
25 National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors Annual Conference
October
4 EC Environment Council (Luxembourg)
4 Polite Society Conference on Noise
5 Somerset County Council Environmental Conference

Officials will be attending all of these meetings and many more.