To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps his Department plans to take to control the outbreaks of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London, following the public consultation;

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps his Department plans to take to control the outbreaks of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London, following the public consultation;

(3) whether his Department (a) has used and (b) plans to use DNA profiling techniques to help to identify the origin of the outbreak of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London; and if he will make a statement.

(3) whether his Department (a) has used and (b) plans to use DNA profiling techniques to help to identify the origin of the outbreak of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London; and if he will make a statement.

(2) what steps his Department (a) has planned, (b) is pursuing and (c) has completed to identify the origin of the outbreak of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London;

(2) what steps his Department (a) has planned, (b) is pursuing and (c) has completed to identify the origin of the outbreak of Diabrotica virgifera to the west of London;

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what action the UK Government have taken (a) to detect animal feed shipments contaminated with the unapproved BX10 variety of GM maize, (b) to prevent such illegal shipments from reaching the UK and (c) to train and equip UK port authorities to detect...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what action the UK Government have taken (a) to detect animal feed shipments contaminated with the unapproved BX10 variety of GM maize, (b) to prevent such illegal shipments from reaching the UK and (c) to train and equip UK port authorities to detect...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department is taking in connection with the failure of the US Administration to notify the UK before March of the import into the UK since 2001 of GM maize containing an antibiotic resistant marker of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action her Department is taking in connection with the failure of the US Administration to notify the UK before March of the import into the UK since 2001 of GM maize containing an antibiotic resistant marker of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed of the recommendation of Professor David Beever that no new maize variety should be placed upon the National Seeds Register unless it achieves a whole-plant target of 32 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed of the recommendation of Professor David Beever that no new maize variety should be placed upon the National Seeds Register unless it achieves a whole-plant target of 32 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the involvement of grainseed in the conduct of the National List trials for Chardon LL in 1998 and 1999 on behalf of the British Plant Breeders Society and the impact on their...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the involvement of grainseed in the conduct of the National List trials for Chardon LL in 1998 and 1999 on behalf of the British Plant Breeders Society and the impact on their...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the new Norwegian research on the safety of the CaMV promoter used in the Chardon LL transgenic insert.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the new Norwegian research on the safety of the CaMV promoter used in the Chardon LL transgenic insert.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made (a) of the extent to which the 1998-99 National List Trials for Chardon LL were (i) independent and (ii) impartial and (b) of their value in determining whether to place the variety on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made (a) of the extent to which the 1998-99 National List Trials for Chardon LL were (i) independent and (ii) impartial and (b) of their value in determining whether to place the variety on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that (a) Liberty on its own had proved ineffective as a herbicide used with GMHT fodder maize crops in the United States and (b) to overcome this problem Bayer has been promoting the use...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that (a) Liberty on its own had proved ineffective as a herbicide used with GMHT fodder maize crops in the United States and (b) to overcome this problem Bayer has been promoting the use...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she has taken to ensure that the Reading University cattle feeding studies involving Chardon LL fodder maize will be scientifically robust and independent of (a) Government and (b) GM crop technology companies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she has taken to ensure that the Reading University cattle feeding studies involving Chardon LL fodder maize will be scientifically robust and independent of (a) Government and (b) GM crop technology companies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evidence she has collated, in the absence of ruminant feeding studies, that Chardon LL has added value for cultivation and use in the United Kingdom.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evidence she has collated, in the absence of ruminant feeding studies, that Chardon LL has added value for cultivation and use in the United Kingdom.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what results she has received from the Chardon LL cattle feeding studies completed at the Reading University Centre for Dairy Research in 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what results she has received from the Chardon LL cattle feeding studies completed at the Reading University Centre for Dairy Research in 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Chardon LL cattle feeding studies at Reading University have cost public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Chardon LL cattle feeding studies at Reading University have cost public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what provision she has made to ensure that Chardon LL maize will not be added to the National Seed List before arrangements have been made to restrict herbicide use to the regime used for the farmscale evaluation programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what provision she has made to ensure that Chardon LL maize will not be added to the National Seed List before arrangements have been made to restrict herbicide use to the regime used for the farmscale evaluation programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether the pesticide regimes which may be approved for the cultivation of Chardon LL maize will be more aggressive than the regime adopted in the farm scale evaluation trials. - (Holding answer...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether the pesticide regimes which may be approved for the cultivation of Chardon LL maize will be more aggressive than the regime adopted in the farm scale evaluation trials. - (Holding answer...

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.

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.