To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of all those Ministers who have been given a specific responsibility for environmental matters within their respective departmental portfolios.
I am responsible, supported by my ministerial colleagues, for all environmental matters within my Department's remit. The current list of Ministers nominated to be responsible for considering the environmental implications of all their Department's policies and spending programmes and for following up the relevant parts of the White Paper "This Common Inheritance" (Cm. 1200) is as follows:
Department and Minister
Lord Chancellor
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Environment
The Rt. Hon. Michael Heseltine, MP
Transport
The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Rifkind, QC, MP
Energy
The Rt. Hon. John Wakeham, MP
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Rt. Hon. John Gummer, MP
Trade and Industry
The Rt. Hon. Peter Lilley, MP
Law Officers'
The Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas Lyell, QC, MP
Privy Council Office/Office of Arts and Libraries
The Rt. Hon. Tim Renton, MP
Overseas Development
The Rt. Hon. Lynda Chalker, MP
Home Office
The Rt. Hon. Angela Rumbold, CBE, MP
Treasury
Mrs. Gillian Shephard, MP
Defence
Kenneth Carlisle, Esq., MP
Education and Science
Michael Fallon, Esq., MP
Employment
Eric Forth, Esq., MP
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Hon. Mark Lennox-Boyd, MP
Health
Stephen Dorrell, Esq., MP
Northern Ireland Office
Richard Needham, Esq., MP
Scottish Office
The Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MP
Social Security
The Lord Henley