HC Deb 01 February 2000 vol 343 cc569-70W
Dr. Naysmith

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will announce his responses to the Red Tape Review reports on the Meat Industry, IACS and Inspections, and the Intervention System. [108319]

Mr. Nick Brown

Further to my replies of 13 December 1999,Official Report, column 89W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-West (Dr. Naysmith), and to my hon. Friends the Members for Wirral, South (Mr. Chapman) and for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mrs. Lawrence), 21 December 1999, Official Report, columns 572–73W, welcoming the three reports prepared as key parts of the review of regulatory burdens on agriculture, I am today placing in the Library of the House action plans which set out the Government's responses to the 107 recommendations in the reports. We have accepted 98 of the 107 recommendations. We shall be giving six recommendations further consideration, and will do so as rapidly as possible. Of the 98 recommendations we have accepted, we shall be pursuing 23 in Brussels to seek changes in the basic legal provisions.