§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to send information to central and eastern European nations on the Green Ministers structure whereby each Department has a Minister responsible for environmental policy; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacleanThe Government's approach to environmental policy, including the concept of Green Ministers, was set out in the 1990 White Paper "This Common Inheritance". We have sent that document and the two subsequent annual reports which also refer to the concept to countries in central and eastern Europe and have discussed it with the Environment Ministers of several of them.