HC Deb 14 February 2003 vol 400 c97W
Norman Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to her answer of 27 January 2003,>Official Report, column 564W, on timber, if she will list (a) the local authorities who were putting or considering putting policies on timber procurement in place, (b) the respondents that did not specifically stipulate that timber should be sourced from both legal and sustainably managed sources and (c) the local authorities using other strategies. [96517]

Mr. Meacher

The following local authorities in England indicated in October 2002 that they were putting or considering putting policies on timber procurement in place: Basingstoke and Deane, Blackpool, Bolton, Broadland, Bury, Calderdale, Chelmsford, Cotswold, Derbyshire, Eastleigh, Epping Forest, Fareham, Harlow,Harrow, Hart, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewes, Liverpool, Malvern Hills, Newcastle under Lyme, North Shropshire, North Somerset, North Yorkshire, Purbeck, Reading, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Shepway, St. Albans, St. Edmundsbury, Tonbridge and Malling, West Lindsey, Wolverhampton.

It was not clear from the following authorities' replies whether their policies did in fact specifically stipulate that timber should be from both legal sources and sustainable sources: Braintree, Copeland, East Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Gateshead, Gloucester City, Gosport, Hampshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Manchester, New Forest, North Devon, Richmondshire, South Oxfordshire, Staffordshire CC, Stockport, Swindon, Tandridge, Tendring, Tunbridge Wells, Westminster and Wyre Forest.

The six authorities that reported using other strategies were: Buckinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Melton, Norfolk, Northumberland and South Ribble.