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Mr. Flynn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out Her Majesty's Government's reservations expressed in regard to the European Commission proposal to the Council on COM (90) 319 final on the gathering of regular official statistics on the environment.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
[ holding answer 12 November 1990]: The Government support in principle the Commission's proposal to establish a formal programme for the regular collection of official statistics on the environment to inform Community environmental policy. There are a number of important areas which the Government wish to clarify in refining the details of the proposal. These include: