§ Mr. StunellTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list companies and organisations taking part in the United Kingdom's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme. [50431]
§ Mr. MeacherI have been asked to reply.
34 organisations entered the scheme as direct participants and bid in the auction, held in March 2002.
It is expected that the number of participants will increase later this year as nearly 6,000 companies with Climate Change Agreements who can chose to use the scheme to meet their targets, or sell any over-achievement, start to participate.
The 34 Direct participants are:
- Asda Stores Ltd.
- Barclays Bank plc
- Battle McCarthy Carbon Club
- Blue Circle Industries plc
- British Airways plc
- British Sugar plc
- BP plc
- Budweiser Stag Brewing Company Ltd.
- Dalkia plc
- Dana UK Holdings Ltd.
- Dupont (U.K.) Ltd.
- EGNI (Wales) Ltd.
- First Hydro Company
- Ford Motor Company Ltd.
- General Domestic Appliances Ltd.
- GKN (U.K.) plc
208W - Imerys Minerals Ltd.
- Ineos Fluor Ltd.
- Kirklees Metropolitan Council
- Land Securities plc
- Lend Lease Real Estate Investment Services Ltd.
- Marks & Spencer plc
- Mitsubishi Corporation UK plc
- Motorola GTSS
- The Natural History Museum
- Quantum Gas Management
- Rhodia Organique Fine Ltd.
- Rolls-Royce plc
- Royal Ordnance plc
- Shell UK Ltd.
- Somerfield Stores Ltd.
- Tesco Stores Ltd.
- UK Coal Mining Ltd.
- WatesGroup.