§ Ms RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the(a) White Papers, (b) Green Papers, (c) consultation papers, (d) draft regulations and (e) circulars, for which his Department has been responsible issued in 1996 which his Department assesses could give rise, (i) directly and (ii) indirectly, to significant environmental effects. [12704]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe Department produces a great many circulars, regulations and consultation papers; many, to a greater or lesser extent, have environmental effects. Central records are not kept of the information in the way requested. Therefore, this information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.