§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on his response to the conference in Plymouth, on the role of plankton in climate change, at which he was represented.
§ Mr. BaldryThe symposium on the biological consequences of global warming, held at the polytechnic of the south west, Plymouth, was a scientific meeting at which Government Departments were not represented. The role of plankton in the global carbon cycle is among the topics to be further reviewed by the intergovernmental panel on climate change, for which the United Kingdom continues to lead the scientific assessment under the chairmanship of Dr. John Houghton, chief executive of the Meteorological Office.