§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport who, in his Department, has been appointed to oversee and develop green issues; how many civil servants have been allocated new or additional responsibilities to deal with the management and development of green issues; and what additional allocation of resources has been made to support programmes related to green issues in his Department.
§ Mr. MacGregorAs the Department of Transport's Green Minister, I am personally responsible for overseeing its environmental work. This work is co-ordinated and developed by the transport policy unit which was set up in 1989.
Conserving the environment is one of the main aims of transport policy and is an aspect of many of the Department's activities. It is not therefore possible to specify the precise number of people or resources in my Department concerned with green issues.