§ Baroness Crawleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they will announce their responses to the Red Tape Review reports on the meat industry integrated administration and control system (IACS) and inspections and the intervention system. [HL852]
§ Baroness HaymanThe Government welcomed the three reports, prepared as key parts of the review of regulatory burdens on agriculture. We have placed 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 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.