To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what statistically valid and peer-reviewed studies her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the safety of feeding Chardon LL fodder maize to ruminants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what statistically valid and peer-reviewed studies her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the safety of feeding Chardon LL fodder maize to ruminants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18th March, 419 c435W, on GM crops, whether the investigations were conducted by the Robert Koch Institute on behalf of the Syngenta Corporation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18th March, 419 c435W, on GM crops, whether the investigations were conducted by the Robert Koch Institute on behalf of the Syngenta Corporation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will withdraw her request to the French competent authority for a variation in the conditions attached to the Part C consent for Chardon LL fodder maize. - (Holding answer 21 April 2004).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will withdraw her request to the French competent authority for a variation in the conditions attached to the Part C consent for Chardon LL fodder maize. - (Holding answer 21 April 2004).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the (a) sampling procedures used in the Chardon LL VCU trials and (b) statistical validity of the results obtained.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the (a) sampling procedures used in the Chardon LL VCU trials and (b) statistical validity of the results obtained.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research is being conducted into inter-species gene flow between GM maize and other plants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research is being conducted into inter-species gene flow between GM maize and other plants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that cattle feeding studies involving Chardon LL fodder maize had been requested by the (a) Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment and (b) Advisory Committee on Animal Feedstuffs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that cattle feeding studies involving Chardon LL fodder maize had been requested by the (a) Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment and (b) Advisory Committee on Animal Feedstuffs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has given consent for harvested Chardon LL forage maize from farm-scale evaluation sites to be taken-off site and used in cattle-feeding studies at the Reading University Centre for Dairy Research; whether the Government's policy on harvested...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has given consent for harvested Chardon LL forage maize from farm-scale evaluation sites to be taken-off site and used in cattle-feeding studies at the Reading University Centre for Dairy Research; whether the Government's policy on harvested...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the recently reported deaths of 12 cattle in Hesse, Germany, in a dairy herd fed on GM fodder maize. (Holding answer 1 March 2004).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the recently reported deaths of 12 cattle in Hesse, Germany, in a dairy herd fed on GM fodder maize. (Holding answer 1 March 2004).

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the Chardon LL feeding trial involving broiler chickens in relation to the health and safety of GMHT fodder maize.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications of the Chardon LL feeding trial involving broiler chickens in relation to the health and safety of GMHT fodder maize.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ensure that new scientific evidence from Norway on the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus promoter is taken into account before a decision is taken on the seed listing of Chardon LL fodder maize.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ensure that new scientific evidence from Norway on the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus promoter is taken into account before a decision is taken on the seed listing of Chardon LL fodder maize.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has communicated the shortcomings of the farm-scale evaluation maize trials to the lead competent authority in France, as required by Directive 2001/18/EC; and whether she has requested a variation in the conditions attached to the Part...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has communicated the shortcomings of the farm-scale evaluation maize trials to the lead competent authority in France, as required by Directive 2001/18/EC; and whether she has requested a variation in the conditions attached to the Part...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that the dry matter content for Chardon LL averages 27.3 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that the dry matter content for Chardon LL averages 27.3 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that (a) the transgenic insert used in Chardon LL is unstable and (b) the variety would be incapable of passing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability test under Directive 2001/18/EC.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she was informed that (a) the transgenic insert used in Chardon LL is unstable and (b) the variety would be incapable of passing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability test under Directive 2001/18/EC.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the results of the GM herbicide review undertaken by the Swedish herbicide authorities on behalf of the EU; and whether these results will inform her decision on the granting of herbicide approval...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the results of the GM herbicide review undertaken by the Swedish herbicide authorities on behalf of the EU; and whether these results will inform her decision on the granting of herbicide approval...

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 on this crop in accordance with the advice of...

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 on this crop in accordance with the advice of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Chardon LL fodder maize has a greater value for cultivation and use than the conventional varieties from which it was bred.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Chardon LL fodder maize has a greater value for cultivation and use than the conventional varieties from which it was bred.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what ruminant feeding trials have been conducted with T25 genetically modified fodder maize; whether such trials have been (a) published and (b) peer reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the implications of such trials for the commercialisation of T25...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what ruminant feeding trials have been conducted with T25 genetically modified fodder maize; whether such trials have been (a) published and (b) peer reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the implications of such trials for the commercialisation of T25...

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...

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...