§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which GM crop varieties started national seed listing trials in September 2002; if she will give their(a) locations and (b) dates of planting; and if each trial is (i) a distinctiveness, uniformity and stability and (ii) a value for cultivation and use trial. [79737]
§ Mr. Meacher[holding answer 6 November 2002]: No new GM candidate varieties started National List tests and trials in September 2002. Three Winter Oilseed Rape varieties, PHW99–429, PHW01–441, PHW02–450, were already in test and trial and these were sown again in September 2002. Of these, PHW99–429 has already completed Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability testing and was sown in Value for Cultivation and Use trials only. The site locations and dates of sowing are as follows:
Type of Test or Trial Location Date of Sowing Distinctness Uniformity and Stability Sand Hutton, Yorkshire 6 September 2002 Value for Cultivation and Use Thorganby, Lincolnshire 6 September 2002 Meden Vale, Nottinghamshire 12 September 2002. Felton, Herefordshire 12 September 2002. Melbourn, Cambridgeshire 10 September 2002 Piccotts End, Hertfordshire 16 September 2002 Shellingford, Oxfordshire 13 September 2002 Bramham, Yorkshire 4 September 2002 Banham, Norfolk 5 September 2002 Udny, Aberdeenshire 11 September 2002