§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent action his Department has taken to protect rain forests.
§ Mr. BaldryOur policy is to help and encourage countries with rain forests to manage them sustainably. The Overseas Development Administration has around 200 forestry projects in progress or under consideration, at an expected cost to the aid programme of about £157 million. In July we hosted with the Government of India an international workshop in New Delhi which successfully agreed a standard format for countries to use to report to the United Nations commission on sustainable development on progress in implementing the forest principles agreed at the 1992 earth summit.