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Environmental Strategy

Volume 196: debated on Thursday 17 October 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether the objectives set out in the departmental Minis 12 document regarding the water directorate, pollution control and wastes directorate, environmental policy and analysis directorate and Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution have been reported upon in each instance in Cm. 1655, the first year report on Britain's environmental strategy.

The MINIS 12 documents set out management objectives and targets for each of the directorates of the Department of the Environment. These objectives and targets are intended to support the overall policy objectives of Ministers and the Department. Thus in the environmental area the management objectives of the units referred to support the policy objectives set out in the White Paper "This Common Inheritance" and reviewed in Cm 1655. It would not be appropriate in a document such as Cm 1655 to report on all the detailed objectives and tasks set out in the MINIS 12 documents. But the two documents are related and support one another as described.