Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill

These amendments aim to provide clarity as to which genetic changes produced through modern biote...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that this important Bill could release vital technological innova...

Of course. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, who was an excellent Secretary of State for Env...

We have traditionally used other methods of crop breeding, such as induced mutation using gamma r...

This technology should accompany and enhance the possibilities of plant breeding and, later, anim...

As always, it is a pleasure to follow the Minister, who is, by my accounting, the fourth Minister...

The hon. Gentleman represents a city that is full of science, particularly in its universities, s...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for that. We have had this discussion before a...

It is a pleasure to rise

again in support of this important Bill. I declare a strong profes...

I will not detain the House longer than a moment or two, but I want to put on record that, althou...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate; I have spoken to the Minister before, so he knows my th...

I pay tribute to hon. Members who have assisted not only in this place, but at the other end of t...

It is right and fitting that the Minister pays tribute to the hub of scientific excellence that w...

Not at all. This is an England-only Bill; it is there in black and white. I was expressing my dis...

Perhaps the Minister might be reassured by the fact that the Scottish National party seems to be ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention. It was my intention to slowly glide the Bill t...

Other Members have spoken about Scotland and Wales. I know that the Minister has a very close wor...

Of course, our door is always open for those conversations with the devolved Administrations. I l...