To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the proposed roles are of (a) his Department and (b) the Department of Trade and Industry in relation tothe Environmental Transformation Fund; and what the timescale is for the implementation of the proposals for the fund. (98517)

The final details of the scale and scope of the joint DEFRA and Department for Trade and Industry Environmental Transformation Fund will be announced in the 2007 Spending Review, for implementation in 2008.