HC Deb 28 October 1997 vol 299 cc803-4W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has, on what time scale, to set up a sustainable development unit within his Department. [12710]

Angela Eagle

The Government's sustainable development unit was set up on 7 July 1997 in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. It reports to the Deputy Prime Minister and has a Government-wide remit to promote sustainable development.

Its main tasks in the new parliamentary Session are to lead a review of the UK sustainable development strategy, with extensive public consultation, and to take forward the "greening Government" initiative in conjunction with a strengthened system of Green Ministers.

England and Wales: real levels of average unmeasured water and sewerage charges to households (at 1997–98 prices)
(£)
1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88
Anglian 145.92 146.40 160.94 166.30 163.52 163.46 166.85 179.33 187.22 192.24
Dŵr Cymru 142.97 147.15 154.22 147.87 160.91 160.76 164.73 175.82 182.92 190.04
Northumbrian 113.77 105.23 111.49 111.30 114.84 121.67 137.14 139.48 135.32 137.37
North West 112.21 113.63 119.53 121.18 118.42 117.59 121.19 131.25 136.68 141.23
Severn Trent 116.52 121.45 125.13 125.76 123.52 120.32 120.54 128.87 134.05 138.77
Southern 136.78 131.32 144.56 148.40 147.18 147.69 148.88 158.12 163.84 169.10
South West 161.02 163.61 170.41 166.61 160.71 163.76 165.99 176.97 177.93 179.92
Thames 112.34 117.08 114.58 120.74 124.57 130.32 136.29 140.78 138.33 139.87
Wessex 153.21 171.55 167.14 161.40 155.27 151.84 151.98 161.34 171.82 177.39
Yorkshire 115.39 118.01 125.25 126.72 129.18 128.05 128.99 139.26 145.94 151.46
England and Wales 123.17 125.86 132.76 132.92 132.72 134.05 136.46 145.26 148.96 153.15

(£)
1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98
Anglian 201.59 218.36 229.30 241.78 256.27 270.02 286.02 298.28 302.89 307.47
Dŵr Cymru 200.29 205.95 218.08 231.05 246.68 261.33 278.26 279.63 281.24 283.09
Northumbrian 140.85 150.19 159.46 174.51 181.07 191.50 204.63 208.92 212.69 216.79
North West 148.01 154.64 161.58 168.84 175.86 186.67 197.75 205.88 214.39 221.52
Severn Trent 145.36 148.72 157.55 164.28 172.76 179.95 195.34 199.16 204.47 207.10
Southern 172.39 174.35 179.76 192.08 197.47 202.19 215.34 227.65 236.09 245.23

Additional information on Greening Government and Green Ministers can be found in the reply by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment to my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley (Mr. Lewis) on 31 July 1997,Official Report, column 542.