§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they are confident that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will retain sufficient laboratory and vessel capability to provide all the research information that will be required:
- (a) during the process of reforming the common fisheries policy; and
- (b) in the years after the common fisheries policy has been reformed, that is, beyond 31 December 2002. [HL1769]
§ The Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Donoughue)The Government are confident that the Ministry's agency, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, will have sufficient laboratory and vessel capability to provide the research information which the Ministry seeks from it in the years leading up to and beyond the review of the common fisheries policy in 2002. The Ministry and other UK fisheries departments will also continue to commission fisheries research from other bodies.