§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when genetically modified winter oilseed rape was planted at Summerhouse Farm, Royston, Hertfordshire, under consent 98/R19/18; and if he will publish the opinion of the farm-scale evaluations scientific steering committee on the relevance of the planting to biodiversity. [99537]
§ Mr. MullinThe genetically modified winter oilseed rape planted at Summerhouse Farm, Royston, Hertfordshire, under consent 98/R19/18, was planted between 19 August and 14 September 1999. The trial is for research and development purposes by the consent holder AgrEvo and consists of a number of small field plots each approximately 20 square metres. It is not a field scale release and is not subject to any consideration by the farm-scale evaluations scientific steering committee.