(2) what progress has been made in setting up the Environmental Technologies Institute; and when he expects the Institute to be opened.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry published the prospectus for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) on 14 September 2006. It envisaged that the Institute would be legally established and fully operational in 2008, with 50:50 public/private sector funding. The intention is that Institute will be legally incorporated over the next few months. A shortlist of organisations which have been invited to prepare detailed submissions to host the ETI director and support staff was announced on 14 May. The first technical programmes and the host organisation should be identified over the summer.