EU Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (Hansard, 3 July 2002)

HC Deb 03 July 2002 vol 388 cc371-2W 372W

§ Angus Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when the EU Standing Committee on Agricultural Research is next due to meet; whether experts nominated by the Scottish Executive(a) have been and (b) are members of it; and if she will make a statement. [64891]

§ Mr. Morley
The European Commission has not yet set a date for the next meeting of SCAR. Experts from the Scottish Executive have not attended recent meetings of SCAR (which have been relatively infrequent), though officials in DEFRA liaise with their Scottish counterparts. There is no bar to their attending as part of the UK delegation as their needs and interests arise.