This is the parliamentary question time for questions to the Environment Minister.

Members of the Commons may question the Environment Minister on any issue relating to his department. Each member is limited to one question per week.

This House recognises Inevitable as the Environment Minister, and requests that he answers all questions posed to him.

This House recognises that there is no Shadow Minister for this department.

The government may only be asked to answer one question at a time - no new questions may be submitted until the previous one has been answered. If the government does not answer, action may be taken by the speaker of the commons.

I therefore open this session with the following question:

Will the Environment Minister please tell us of his department's aims for this session of parliament?...

My aim is to keep the trees up.

Oh, and with the Assym crisis on the horizon, we want to protect the environment from weapons of either side.

I thank the Minister for his answer and open this session to the house...