HC Deb 15 February 1999 vol 325 c426W
Joan Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate she has made of the revenues which would flow from developing to developed countries as a result of genetic patenting. [70932]

Clare Short

Given the large number of uncertainties in any such exercise, I can make no estimate of the revenues which would flow from developing to developed countries as a result of genetic patenting.