§ Mr. Peter AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish all correspondence(a) between her Department and (i) the Institute of Animal Health, (ii) the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, (iii) the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, (iv) the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, (v) the Food Standards Agency and (vi) the Department of Health, and (b) between those agencies which are the responsibility of her Department, regarding tests to establish whether BSE was present in sheep in the early 1990s. [10594]
§ Margaret Beckett[holding answer 26 October 2001]: The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.