§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the company (or companies) marketing pesticides referred to in the Answer by the Lord Carter on 26 May (H.L. Deb., col. 916) which had chosen not to provide the data necessary to market two products containing diazinon, is able freely to sell these products abroad; and whether they will receive support in doing so from British embassies. [HL2904]
§ The Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Lord Donoughue)The decision to cease to market certain products containing diazinon in the UK does not, in itself, prevent companies from selling such products in another country. The product would, of course, have to comply with the other country's own legislation.
The fact that a company chose to cease to support the approval of a pesticide in the UK would not affect the support it could expect from British Trade International, including British posts overseas, in seeking legitimately to sell that product abroad.