Mr. Gareth R. ThomasTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the development of environmental indicators for agriculture by the OECD for use in OECD member countries. [56772]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 27 October 1998]: The OECD is developing a set of indicators to measure the environmental impacts of agriculture and agricultural policies across OECD countries.
The UK hosted a workshop on behalf of the OECD in York on 22-25 September to help progress this work. The workshop's conclusions and recommendations will be discussed at an OECD meeting in Paris on 14-16 December.