§ Viscount Hanworthasked Her Majesty's Government:
With which consumer and environmental pressure groups the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Ministers or officials have held meetings since June 1998, indicating in how many of these meetings genetically-modified organisms or biotechnology were discussed. [HL3582]
§ Lord DonoughueMAFF Ministers and/or officials have had more than 360 meetings with the consumer/environmental/pressure groups listed below since June 1998. Genetically Modified Organisms/biotechnology were discussed during approximately 40 of these meetings.
- Game Conservancy Trust
- Scottish National Heritage
- World Wildlife Fund
- Organic Farms & Growers
WA 22 - Organic Food Federation
- Marine Conservation Society
- Parnham Trust
- National Food Alliance
- Wildlife & Wetlands Trust
- Humane Slaughter Association
- Horror Out Of Farming
- Joint National Conservation Council
- Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
- Soil Association
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- National Trust
- British Deer Society
- Wildlife Trust
- Woodland Trust
- Butterfly Conservation Trust
- Linking Environment And Farming
- SAFE Alliance
- British Trust for Ornithology
- Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Climate Action Network
- Plant Life
- National Conservation Council
- English Nature
- Consumers' Association
- National Federation of Conservation Groups
- Croydon Conservation Group
- Consumers in Europe Group
- Women's Institutes
- Consultative Farm of Whaling
- Salmon & Trout Association
- Campaign for Protection of Shechita
- National Housewives Association
- Friends of the Earth
- Anaphylaxis Campaign
- Latex Allergy Support Group
- Welsh Consumers Council
- British Trust for Ornithology
- Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- UK Arctic Conservation Forum
- London Conservation Working Group
- Free Radicals
- Consumers International
- Pesticides Trust
- Townswomen's Guild
- Cornish Guild of Smallholders
WA 23 - Small Farms Association
- Devon Smallholders Association
- North Cornwall Smallholders
- Family Farmers Association
- Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Ramblers Association
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- Compassion in World Farming
- Gaia Foundation
- Wildlife & Countryside Link
- Scottish Consumers Council
- National Federation of Badgers Group
- Sherwood Forest Trust
- English Heritage
- Wildlife Trust
- Cotswold & Gloucestershire Farm Attraction Group
- Wiltshire Rural Forum
- Wiltshire Woodland Forum
- Great Western Community Forest
- Dorset Rural Forum
- The Rare Breeds Survival Trust
- Greenpeace
- Green Alliance
- Gene Watch
- Women's Environmental Network & Genetics Forum
- World Society for the Protection of Animals
- International Federation for Animal Welfare.