HC Deb 16 December 1997 vol 303 c146W
19. Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans the Government have to introduce schemes to permit the trading of quotas of permitted pollutants. [19414]

Angela Eagle

The Government are committed to implement the best package of instruments for delivering existing and future environmental policy commitments. These in principle may include the trading of emissions quotas, as well as pollution charges or other instruments. There are no current proposals for the introduction of Emissions Quota Trading.