Genetically Modified Organisms

Mr. Peter Ainsworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding her Department made available to (a) the Food Standards Agency and (b) other bodies for the purposes of conducting agricultural biotechnology research in each of the last 10 years.

Dawn Primarolo
[holding answer 28 June 2007]: The Department has provided no money to the Food Standards Agency, or any other body, for the purposes of conducting agricultural biotechnology research.