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Environmental Claims

Volume 281: debated on Wednesday 17 July 1996

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32.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what action he intends to take to protect consumers from misleading environmental claims. [36099]

36.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what action he intends to take to protect consumers from abuses highlighted in the National Consumer Council report on environmental claims on goods. [36103]

My Department is currently working with the Department of the Environment to draw up, in consultation with industry and consumer interests, a code of practice for the making of environmental claims.