§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Prime Minister if he will set out for each Government Department represented at the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro, the number, grade and role of the 24 officials and eight junior support staff in the United Kingdom delegation; if he will list the title of each document submitted to the Rio de Janeiro conference; and what responses were made to each document.
§ The Prime MinisterI refer the hon. Member to the reply that my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Environment and Countryside gave on 9 June 1992, column147.
The Government submitted the following documents to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development secretariat:
This Common Inheritance": 1990 Environment White Paper.This Common Inheritance": first-year report.United Nations Environment Programme United Kingdom's non-governmental organisation Agenda 21 report.Local government statement on United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources' "Caring for the Earth" report; andInter-Agency Committee on Global and Environmental Change report on United Kingdom research.No formal response has been received to any of the documents as they were submitted for information only.