HC Deb 27 July 1999 vol 336 c353W
Mr. Ivan Henderson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he will publish his response to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee's Twelfth report of Session 1998–99 into the Future of the UK Shipping Industry (HC 172); and if he will make a statement. [93700]

Mr. Prescott

We welcome the Committee's report which generally supported our policy paper "British Shipping: Charting a new course" which is designed to initiate the action required to reverse the decline in the UK's shipping industry. We are today publishing our formal response which has been laid before the House.