HC Deb 23 March 1990 vol 169 cc783-4W
Mr. Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Gordon of 15 March,Official Report, column 342, if he will list the locations of (a) the three centres at which he is reviewing applications for the release of genetically manipulated organisms to the environment and (b) the eight centres where releases have already taken place.

Mr. Nicholls

The eight centres which have notified the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of proposals to release genetically manipulated organisms to the environment and whose proposals have been reviewed by HSE are:

Natural Environment Research Council, Institute of Virology, Oxford.

Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden.

Institute for Plant Science Research, Cambridge.

Scottish Crops Research Institute, Invergowrie and Pentlandfield

Shell Research Ltd, Sittingbourne.

ICI, Jealott's Hill, Berkshire.

British Fermentation Products Ltd./Gist Brocades, Felixtowe.

Nickerson International Seeds Co. Ltd. Cambridge.

For the three centres whose notifications are currently under review, it would be inappropriate to provide this information.