HC Deb 23 June 1999 vol 333 c395W
Joan Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to license test projects for the farming of genetically modified fish in Scotland. [87259]

Mr. Macdonald

None. No applications for consent to release GM fish into the environment have been made under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 (as amended).

Policy on this issue will be devolved from 1 July 1999.

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