Member

Turning to the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, I agree that it should be made clear to anyone who wants to know that a particular variety has evolved from gene editing. There will be a register recording the fact that a variety has been achieved by precision breeding, but by the time a new variety—let us say a wheat—is sold to a farmer, let alone to a consumer of the bread it becomes, it will be several generations away from any gene editing. I should point out that ACRE and the Food Standards Agency get involved long before a seed reaches the marketplace.