§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect on the work of the Overseas Development Administration on the phasing out of the use of timber from unsustainable sources.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe most effective way of ensuring that timber comes from sustainable sources is to promote and support the sustainable management of forests. This is a central objective of many ODA-supported forestry projects. Individual projects are monitored to assess their performance against objectives. We are also supporting the International Tropical Timber Organisation, which promotes sustainable forest management with the objective of the production of internationally traded timber being from sustainable sources by the year 2000.