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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the requirements for a post approval safety monitoring plan specified in the new food and feed regulations for GM foods will be applied to Bt11 sweetcorn.

Asked by

Joan Ruddock (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2003

Reference

144700; 415 c994-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice her Department has (a) given and (b) received from the Food Standards Agency on a decision regarding the application for use of Bt 11 GM maize in food considered at the EC Standing Committee on Food...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2003

Reference

415 c903W; 143476;143477

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much genetically-modified maize has been imported to the United Kingdom to be used for (a) livestock feed, (b) poultry feed and (c) other purposes in each of the past five years for which records are available. -...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2003

Reference

143211; 415 c903W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the full dossier submitted in relation to the Bt11 sweetcorn application.

Asked by

Joan Ruddock (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2003

Reference

415 c994W; 144699

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the impact which food aid to Swaziland is having on the ability of Swazi maize farmers to sell their produce; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

John Barrett (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 December 2003

Reference

415 c726-7W; 142782

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the decision of the Food Standards Agency to vote to approve a licence for GM sweetcorn at the recent EU committee meeting; what discussions his Department has had with the Food Standards Agency regarding the...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

8 December 2003

For answer on

11 December 2003

Answered on

11 December 2003

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the decision of the Food Standards Agency to vote to approve a licence for GM sweetcorn at the recent EU committee meeting; [143656] Andrew George: (1) what discussions his Department has had with the Food Standards Agency regarding the application for use of Bt11 GM maize in food considered by the EC Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health meeting on 8 December; [143474] (2) what advice his Department has (a) given and (b) received from the Food Standards Agency on a decision regarding the application for use of Bt11 GM maize in food considered at the EC Standing Committee on Food Chain and Animal Health meeting on 8 December. [143475] Miss Melanie Johnson: A vote on the authorisation of Bt11 sweetcorn was taken at a meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 8 December. The Food Standards Agency represents the United Kingdom at this committee. As is always the case at such committees, the UK delegation presented a position on behalf of the Government, which was agreed after consulting Ministers from all relevant Departments. The application for the authorisation of a line of genetically modified sweetcorn for food use was made in 1999 under the novel foods regulation (EC) No. 258/97. The dossier was reviewed by the European Union member states and then referred to the European Community Scientific Committee on Food (SCF). The SCF reviewed the application along with an additional dossier of information provided by the applicant, which responded to questions raised by member states. The SCF opinion was published in May 2002 and concluded that this line of GM sweetcorn is as safe for human food consumption as its conventional counterparts. The UK supported the proposal for authorisation because the criteria laid out in the relevant legislation had been met, namely: the product does not present a risk to the consumer, does not mislead the consumer and is not nutritionally disadvantageous compared with other foods that it might replace.

Date

11 December 2003

Reference

415 c596-7W; 143656;143474;143475

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) dose, (b) timing, (c) formulation and (d) method of application of the herbicide selected for use on GM maize in the farm scale evaluations was modelled upon the standard commercially adopted herbicide regimes used on...

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 December 2003

Reference

415 c145W; 140770

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will list the countries where Liberty Link GM maize is commercially grown. - This Department does not keep records.

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 December 2003

Reference

140771; 415 c28W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice her Department will offer to the forthcoming EU Regulatory Committee on the application for the sale of Bt 11 GM corn.

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 December 2003

Reference

415 c27-8W; 140716

House

House of Commons

Petition from citizens of the United Kingdom against the national listing of Chardon LL maize and any other genetically modified seeds

Petition from citizens of the United Kingdom against the national listing of Chardon LL maize and any other genetically modified seeds. (Circulated with the Vote 4 December 2003).

Type

Paper petitions

Date

2 December 2003

Reference

Votes and Proceedings

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the results were of the Farm Scale Evaluation trials in respect of conventional maize crops in the 17 per cent. of cases where atrazine was not used as a herbicide.

Asked by

Michael Meacher (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

140153; 413 c1199-200W;413 c1196W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what research the choice of (a) dose, (b) timing, (c) formulation and (d) method of application of the herbicide used on GM maize in the farm scale evaluations was based.

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c896W; 139804

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether estimates of yield for GM maize in the GM farm scale evaluation published by her Department will be based upon maize crops grown using the same herbicide regime as used on these farm scale evaluations. - Inc...

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

137655; 413 c892W;413 c891W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent evidence there is on the impact of the effect of herbicide use on GM maize, with particular reference to levels of herbicide use; and what assessment has been made of that evidence.

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 November 2003

Reference

139019; 413 c717-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether in the GM farm scale evaluations (a) commercially useful yield, (b) starch and (c) dry matter measurements of the final GM maize crop were independently obtained to confirm whether the use of this herbicide regime would allow...

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 November 2003

Reference

137656; 413 c411W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when during the GM farm scale evaluations she was informed that neither the use of Liberty alone on GM maize nor the use of Atrazine on the non-GM control crop would replicate the herbicide use and management regimes...

Asked by

Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 November 2003

For answer on

13 November 2003

Answered on

13 November 2003

Mr. Simon Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when during the GM farm scale evaluations she was informed that neither the use of Liberty alone on GM maize nor the use of Atrazine on the non-GM control crop would replicate the herbicide use and management regimes which would be used in commercial plantings in the UK in future years. [136808] Mr. Morley: [holding answer 6 November 2003]: The farm-scale evaluations were set up to assess the relative impact on wildlife of GM and non-GM management of four crops, based on practices current at the time. They were not set up to investigate the impact of any potential future management changes for either crop, although they will provide an invaluable baseline in our understanding of any such future changes. The decision to phase out Atrazine in the EU was taken on 3 October 2003, over a year after the completion of the last maize field trials. During the time of the trials (1999-2002) conventional maize practice predominately involved the use of Atrazine; this therefore formed a large part of the sample of FSE fields. In 2002 some evidence emerged that farmers in the US often mixed Atrazine with glufosinate ammonium for use on GM maize crops. In the FSE, farmers of GM maize used glufosinate ammonium alone. The industry asserted that the UK and US differed in conditions and that glufosinate ammonium alone was typical of the likely practice in the UK. The scientific steering committee, whose role it is to advise me on the conduct of the FSE, considered that in the absence of evidence either way to justify the need for Atrazine to be used in conjunction with glufosinate ammonium in the UK that trials would continue as before. Accordingly, I was not advised that any action was necessary. Now that Atrazine is being phased out it clearly will not be permitted on any fodder maize crop, GM or otherwise. However, the issue of whether other licensed herbicides could be mixed with glufosinate ammonium on GM crops remains.

Date

13 November 2003

Reference

136808; 413 c413-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what spray density in litres per hectare was used in the GM maize farmscale evaluation programme; and what spray density she expects will be used if commercial cultivation of GM maize goes ahead. - Inc ref to Champion...

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

31 October 2003

For answer on

5 November 2003

Answered on

5 November 2003

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what spray density in litres per hectare was used in the GM maize farmscale evaluation programme; and what spray density she expects will be used if commercial cultivation of GM maize goes ahead. [136609] Mr. Morley: The recommended individual and maximum permitted application rates of the herbicide glufosinate-ammonium used on GM maize in the farm- scale evaluations were defined by the conditions of the simulated product licence that formed part of the experimental pesticide approval. This specified a maximum permitted rate of eight litres per hectare and a recommended individual rate of four litres per hectare, depending on the weeds present and their growth stage. Application was permitted until the nine-leaf stage of maize. For further details, and for details of other non- herbicide sprays used, see Champion et al. 2003; "Crop Management and Agronomic Context of the Farm Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant Crops"; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B). 358 (1439): 1801-18. A copy of this journal has been placed in the Library. Before glufosinate-ammonium could be used on a commercial scale on GM-maize, it would need full pesticide approval. In seeking approval, the necessary data package would have to be supplied by the applicant and be subjected to the considerations of human and environmental safety which have been established for all pesticide uses. Any approval given would specify recommended and maximum application rates in the same way as the experimental permit. These conditions would be determined by the Pesticide Safety Directorate taking due account of advice from their expert advisory committee the Advisory Committee on Pesticides.

Date

5 November 2003

Reference

136609; 412 c631W;412 c637W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in relation to the farm scale evaluations of GM crops (a) which herbicides were used in the maize trials and whether these will continue to be legally available to farmers, (b) who was responsible for the independent measurement...

Asked by

Alan Simpson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 October 2003

For answer on

3 November 2003

Answered on

3 November 2003

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in relation to the farm scale evaluations of GM crops (a) which herbicides were used in the maize trials and whether these will continue to be legally available to farmers, (b) who was responsible for the independent measurement of maize yields and herbicide inputs and (c) whether comparisons between GM and non-GM maize yields were of crops using identical herbicide use. [134923] Mr. Morley: All of the herbicides used in the GM crop farm-scale evaluations, both on the GM crops and the non-GM equivalents, are listed in full in the scientific papers published on 16 October 2003 (see Champion et al. 2003; "Crop management and agronomic context of the farm scale evaluations of genetically modified herbicide tolerant crops'"; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B). 358 (1439): 1801-1818. A copy of this journal has been placed in the Library. Three herbicides used in the maize trials have been withdrawn as part of the EU review programme of pesticide active ingredients. The herbicides Atrazine and Simazine can be used for a further 18 months. Cyanazine can be used until the end of December 2003. The independent research team carrying out the evaluations audited the herbicide use by the farmers and monitored growth stages of the crops to compare yields. They concluded that the trials were conducted fairly. This approach and conclusion was endorsed by the independent Scientific Steering Committee and again independently assessed and by the journal referees; see Champion et al. 2003 for more details. Comparisons were not made using identical herbicide regimes as the purpose of the trials was specifically to assess the impact on wildlife of the different herbicide regimes used on the GM and non-GM crops.

Date

3 November 2003

Reference

134923; 412 c410-1W;412 c418-9W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the average levels of fumicosin and aflatoxin in UK maize grain produced organically; what estimate he has made of the average levels of fumicosin and aflatoxin in UK maize grain used in the human and animal...

Asked by

Roger Williams (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2003

Reference

410 c336W;410 c376W; 128695;128696

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by how much (a) diesel fuel consumption by farmers and (b) soil erosion would be reduced if 50 per cent. of UK sugar beet, maize and oilseed rape farmers switched to GM herbicide-tolerant varieties and conservation tillage; how...

Asked by

Roger Williams (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 September 2003

Reference

410 c324-5W;410 c365W; 128694;128700

House

House of Commons

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