§ Mr. AingerTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what steps he is taking to review and set out the environmental information his Department holds for the purpose of the Environmental Information Regulations 1992.
§ Mr. McLoughlin[holding answer 19 July 1993]: My Department is fully committed to dealing with all relevant requests for information in accordance with the provisions of the regulations. Given the diversity of activities potentially affected within DTI and the form in which information is held, requests for access to particular types of information will be dealt with on an individual, case by case basis.
As an example of this, I refer the hon. Member to the answer that my hon. Friend the Minister for Energy gave to the hon. Member for Staffordshire, South (Mr. Cormack) on 16 July, Official Report, column 705, which deals with disclosure of information regarding the special conditions attached to oil and gas licences awarded in the 14th round.
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