HC Deb 31 July 1997 vol 299 c436W
Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to this answer of 23 July,Official Report, column 639, concerning research into use of crops yielding vegetable oils, if he will list the principal research projects his Department is funding, indicating the cost of each to public funds. [11820]

Mr. Rooker

The information requested is as follows:

Project title Total cost(£)
Genetic engineering of oilseed rape to produce products of defined acyl variation and low downstream processing 320,697
Oilseed rape seed loss-improving strength of pods by using engineering fracture analysis of genetically diverse pods 348,000
Genetic improvement of oilseed rape for reduced susceptibility to pod shatter 607,193
Regulation of pod shatter in oilseed rape 190,210
A knowledge based assessment of rapeseed oil as a pesticide adjuvant 243,261
Vegetable oils with specific fatty acids 87,840
Pesticide adjuvants from vegetable oils 68,092
Cost benefit assessment, including life cycle analysis, of oils produced from UK-grown crops compared with mineral oil 192,754
Comparative field trils of alternative UK road transport fuels 33,520
Linseed agronomy 1,015,216