HC Deb 20 March 1996 vol 274 c229W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on his policy on the cloning of farm animals. [20898]

Mrs. Browning

The Department's policy on the cloning of farm animals is guided by the recommendations of the report of the Committee to Consider the Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Breeding of Farm Animals—the Banner committee—which reported in 1995.