To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the reports on land and sea environment commissioned by his Department over the past five years; and whether they were published.

My Department includes a list of DOE-published pollution papers and reports in the digests of environmental protection and water statistics. This list is complemented by the list of published research reports given in the DOE biennal R and D reports. Both publications include reports on land and marine pollution and copies of both are held in the Library of the House.

The total non-domestic rateable values shown on the lists deposited with local authorities on 20 December by region and broad property type are shown in the table: