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Written question asked by Roger Williams (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 29 March 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 18 April 2006. It was answered by Ben Bradshaw (Labour) on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


Ring Rot

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the (a) correspondence and (b) meetings the Department has had with representatives from the Royal Netherlands embassy in connection with the outbreak of ring rot of potatoes in 2003 in Wales.
Answer

[holding answer 18 April 2006]: A list of correspondence between the Department and representatives from the Royal Netherlands embassy, in connection with the outbreak of potato ring rot in Wales in 2003, is as follows. This includes some correspondence associated with subsequent outbreaks. There have been no meetings between the Department and the Royal Netherlands embassy to discuss this issue.

List of correspondence between DEFRA and Royal NL embassy concerning the 2003 ring rot outbreak
Type ofcorrespondence Date Between Subject
Letter 1 April 2004 McIntosh/Thissen Inviting contributions to the lessons learned review
e-mail 14 May 2004 McIntosh/Thissen Extension to lessons learned review
Letter 26 May 2004 Thissen/McIntosh Response to lessons learned review
Letter 9 June 2004 McIntosh/Thissen Providing draft copy of lessons learned report
Letter 18 June 2004 McIntosh/Thissen With thanks for contributing to the lessons
e-mail 27 August 2004 Thissen/McIntosh Thanks for copy of draft lessons learned review
Letter 8 September 2004 Hunter/Thissen State of affairs
Letter 13 September 2004 McIntosh/Thissen Providing a copy of the final lessons learned review
e-mail 12 October 2004 Thissen/McIntosh State of affairs
e-mail 6 December 2004 McIntosh/Thissen State of affairs
e-mail 5 January 2005 McIntosh/Thissen State of affairs
e-mail 17 January 2005 Rikken/McIntosh/Thissen State of affairs
e-mail 25 January 2005 Rikken/McIntosh/Thissen State of affairs
Letter 2 February 2005 Van Opstal/Thissen/Hunter New notification Regulations
e-mail 26 April 2005 Rikken/McIntosh/Hunter State of affairs

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
63183; 445 c984-6W;445 c984-6W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Disease control Potatoes Wales Netherlands
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk