To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he has consulted the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport, and the Regions, concerning the impact on rates of deforestation of the proposed elimination of tariffs on wood products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if he has consulted the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport, and the Regions, concerning the impact on rates of deforestation of the proposed elimination of tariffs on wood products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the impact on rates of deforestation of the proposed elimination of tariffs on wood products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the impact on rates of deforestation of the proposed elimination of tariffs on wood products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the mechanisms within government to ensure that the Government's policies on forest conservation are taken into account when its stance in World Trade Organisation negotiations is being considered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the mechanisms within government to ensure that the Government's policies on forest conservation are taken into account when its stance in World Trade Organisation negotiations is being considered.

What research her Department has evaluated into the links between land clearance for cattle farming and tropical deforestation.

What research her Department has evaluated into the links between land clearance for cattle farming and tropical deforestation.

What is his role in respect of the management of the Forestry Commission estate in Wales as it relates to (a) wood, (b) conservation and (c) landscape.

What is his role in respect of the management of the Forestry Commission estate in Wales as it relates to (a) wood, (b) conservation and (c) landscape.

If he will list those projects concerned with the conservation of tropical rainforests, or species within them, funded through the Global Environment Facility, together with the sums of money which have been committed internationally to each project; and if he will indicate if each project forms part of biodiversity action...

If he will list those projects concerned with the conservation of tropical rainforests, or species within them, funded through the Global Environment Facility, together with the sums of money which have been committed internationally to each project; and if he will indicate if each project forms part of biodiversity action...

What safeguards exist within the G7 Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest to protect the interests of indigenous people in Amazonia.

What safeguards exist within the G7 Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest to protect the interests of indigenous people in Amazonia.

What is the policy of the United Kingdom Government towards the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests.

What is the policy of the United Kingdom Government towards the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests.

What measures he proposes to review and deal with problems of coastal erosion in Wales. - Inc ref to guidance booklets on project appraisal, environmental best practice and the preparation of shoreline management plans (in Lib).

What measures he proposes to review and deal with problems of coastal erosion in Wales. - Inc ref to guidance booklets on project appraisal, environmental best practice and the preparation of shoreline management plans (in Lib).

What measures he proposes to review and deal with problems of coastal erosion. - Inc ref to guidance booklets on project appraisal, environmental best practice and the preparation of shoreline management plans (in Lib).

What measures he proposes to review and deal with problems of coastal erosion. - Inc ref to guidance booklets on project appraisal, environmental best practice and the preparation of shoreline management plans (in Lib).

What is the United Kingdom Government's policy regarding the involvement of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in the issue of tropical rainforest conservation. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995).

What is the United Kingdom Government's policy regarding the involvement of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in the issue of tropical rainforest conservation. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995).

What assessment he has made of the willingness or otherwise of the British public to pay, through taxation, for additional measures to conserve tropical rainforests. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995).

What assessment he has made of the willingness or otherwise of the British public to pay, through taxation, for additional measures to conserve tropical rainforests. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995).

What assessment he has made of the principal reasons for the general failure of initiatives taken so far, including the TFAP and the ITTO, to prevent the destruction of tropical rainforests. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995)

What assessment he has made of the principal reasons for the general failure of initiatives taken so far, including the TFAP and the ITTO, to prevent the destruction of tropical rainforests. - (Holding answer 21 April 1995)

If he will include in the United Kingdom overseas aid programme provision for financial assistance to the Government of Suriname for the purpose of strengthening the Surinamese Forest Management Service.

If he will include in the United Kingdom overseas aid programme provision for financial assistance to the Government of Suriname for the purpose of strengthening the Surinamese Forest Management Service.

What steps the United Kingdom Government took at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity to ensure that the Convention is used as a means of conserving forests. - (Holding answer 16 December 1994).

What steps the United Kingdom Government took at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity to ensure that the Convention is used as a means of conserving forests. - (Holding answer 16 December 1994).

If he will place in the Library the papers to be presented from the United Kingdom to the Indo-British Forestry Initiative workshop to be held in New Delhi in July. - (Holding answer 8 July 1994) - Copies will be placed in Library.

If he will place in the Library the papers to be presented from the United Kingdom to the Indo-British Forestry Initiative workshop to be held in New Delhi in July. - (Holding answer 8 July 1994) - Copies will be placed in Library.

How much money from the UK Exchequer was spent on the renegotiation of the International Tropical Timber Agreement. - Includes figures.

How much money from the UK Exchequer was spent on the renegotiation of the International Tropical Timber Agreement. - Includes figures.

What estimate he has made of the reduction in the rate of tropical deforestation which is likely to result from the New International Tropical Timber Agreement. - Includes fact that it is not possible to make such an estimate.

What estimate he has made of the reduction in the rate of tropical deforestation which is likely to result from the New International Tropical Timber Agreement. - Includes fact that it is not possible to make such an estimate.

What efforts have been made by his Department to date to provide information to the general public on (a) issuing early warnings of radiation hazards, (b) the early identification and cordoning-off of contaminated areas, (c) medical screening and decontamination of those contaminated with plutonium and (d) the restoration to safe...

What efforts have been made by his Department to date to provide information to the general public on (a) issuing early warnings of radiation hazards, (b) the early identification and cordoning-off of contaminated areas, (c) medical screening and decontamination of those contaminated with plutonium and (d) the restoration to safe...

What plans she has to take account of the findings of the Radiobiology Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London in relation to the gut-uptake factor levels adopted by her Department to calculate radiation dose levels.

What plans she has to take account of the findings of the Radiobiology Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London in relation to the gut-uptake factor levels adopted by her Department to calculate radiation dose levels.