§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has to set up a monitoring programme for pesticide residues in fruit supplied to the national school fruit scheme; and if he will publish the results of such monitoring. [36088]
§ Yvette CooperI apologise to my hon. Friend for the delay in responding to this question. I refer her to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave 1139W my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) on 5 March 2002, Official Report, column 192W.
The Department of Health has established a programme of testing for pesticide residues on fruit supplied as part of the National School Fruit Scheme and will make the results available in due course.