§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the annual amount of public subsidies which encourage the use of environmentally damaging goods and services, as defined by the 3 report of the British Government Panel on Sustainable Development 1997. [128097]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithAt present there is too much uncertainty as to the values appropriate in many specific instances for any meaningful calculation of the total of such implicit subsidies to be possible.