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Written question asked by Alan Simpson (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 November 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 7 November 2002. It was answered by Michael Meacher (Labour) on Thursday, 7 November 2002 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place the tender documents for the biodiversity monitoring on the farm scale evaluations on sugar beet and fodder beet, the contracts for that work and related correspondence in the Library; if she will list the sites in England and Wales where releases of GM oilseed rape were made in 2000 and 2001 under the consent 98/R19/18; and if she will list the genetic transformation events in Aventis' spring oilseed rape released under the consent OO/R33/9 and other experimental release consents granted for this transformation under the GMO Deliberate Release Regulations. - Inc ref to 6 April 2001, 366 c321W and table.
Answer

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will place the tender documents for the biodiversity monitoring on the farm scale evaluations on sugar beet and fodder beet, the contracts for that work and related correspondence in the Library; if she will list the sites in England and Wales where releases of GM oilseed rape were made in 2000 and 2001 under the consent 98/R19/18; and if she will list the genetic transformation events in Aventis' spring oilseed rape released under the consent 00/R33/9 and other experimental release consents granted for this transformation under the GMO Deliberate Regulations. [80214] Mr. Meacher: I refer my hon. Friend the Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham and Deptford (Joan Ruddock), Official Report, 6 April 2001, column 321W, which announced that a copy of each of the four farm-scale evaluation contracts, which include the invitations to tender, the tenders themselves, the project specification and the covering letter, have been placed in the Library. In 2001, there were no releases in England or Wales under consent 98/R19/18. In 2000, there were no releases in Wales under consent 98/R19/18. In England, the locations of releases under this consent are summarised below. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nearest Village County Little Shelford Cambridgeshire St Osyth, Seawick Essex Kempley Gloucestershire Chipping Campden Gloucestershire Itchen Abbas Hampshire Piccots End Hertfordshire Boothby Graffoe Lincolnshire North Kelsey Lincolnshire Horningtoft Norfolk Meden Vale Nottinghamshire Appleton Oxfordshire Alderminster Warwickshire Upper Tysoe Warwickshire Priors Hardwick Warwickshire Laverton Worcestershire East Newton North Yorkshire Hutton Magna North Yorkshire _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The transformation events in oilseed rape covered by consent 00/R33/9 are Ms8 and Rf3. Since 2000 releases of oilseed rape containing these events have also been carried out under consents 00/R33/5, 00/R33/6, 00/R33/7, 00/R33/10, 00/R33/11 and 98/R19/18 in England and 00/R33/5S, 00/R33/6S, 00/R33/7S, 00/R33/10S, 00/R33/11S and 98/R19/18 in Scotland.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
392 c582-3W;392 c594-6W; 80214
Session
2001-02
Subjects
Contracts Crops Biodiversity Environment protection Genetically modified organisms Monitoring Location
Link
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