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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Joan Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which GM crop varieties started national seed listing trials in September 2002; if she will give their (a) locations and (b) dates of planting; and if each trial is (i) a distinctiveness, uniformity and stability and (ii) a value for cultivation and use trial. [79737] Mr. Meacher: [holding answer 6 November 2002]: No new GM candidate varieties started National List tests and trials in September 2002. Three Winter Oilseed Rape varieties, PHW99-429, PHW01-441, PHW02-450, were already in test and trial and these were sown again in September 2002. Of these, PHW99-429 has already completed Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability testing and was sown in Value for Cultivation and Use trials only. The site locations and dates of sowing are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Type of Test or Trial Location Date of Sowing Distinctness Uniformity and Stability Sand Hutton, Yorkshire 6 September 2002 Value for Thorganby, Lincolnshire 6 September 2002 Cultivation Meden Vale, Nottinghamshire 12 September 2002. and Use Felton, Herefordshire 12 September 2002 Melbourn, Cambridgeshire 10 September 2002 Piccotts End, Hertfordshire 16 September 2002 Shellingford, Oxfordshire 13 September 2002 Bramham, Yorkshire 4 September 2002 Banham, Norfolk 5 September 2002 Udny, Aberdeenshire 11 September 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

79737; 392 c576W;392 c588W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Crops Genetically modified organisms Location Seeds Testing Oilseed rape

Link

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