HC Deb 10 December 1996 vol 287 c87W
Mr. Ian McCartney

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if his Department has signed the Melbourne declaration on injury prevention and control, adopted on 22 February. [7945]

Mr. John M. Taylor

The third international conference on injury prevention, held in Melbourne in February 1996, brought together representatives of the international injury prevention and control community, but was not an intergovernmental conference.

The so-called "Melbourne declaration", adopted by the conference, addresses certain recommendations to Governments, among others, but does not provide for formal endorsement by Governments of its conclusions.