HC Deb 03 February 1997 vol 289 cc459-60W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how her Department has used the UK indicators for sustainable development in(a) the production of the Department's annual report, (b) monitoring progress towards meeting the objectives set out in the UK sustainable development strategy and (c) assessing the environmental implications of policy options; and what plans it has to extend their use in future within the Department. [12276]

Mr. Robin Squire

The Department is primarily concerned with raising standards of educational achievement and skill and with promoting an efficient and flexible labour market. The environmental impact of our work is therefore relatively slight. None the less, we use the indicators for sustainable development to inform policy options and will continue to do so.