Early Day Motion·EDM 231

CONDUCT OF DEFRA AND THE PESTICIDES VOLUNTARY INITIATIVE

28 November 20027 Signatures

Primary sponsor

Sir John Hayes

ConservativeSouth Holland and The Deepings

Motion Text

That this House notes with great concern the conclusion of the Environmental Audit Select Committee Report that it is 'bizarre and deplorable that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has commissioned a review of the success of the voluntary initiative without even having the courtesy to inform Professor Dent', the independent Chairman of the Pesticides Voluntary Initiative Steering Committee; and believes that this is further evidence of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Ministers' confusion, incompetence and incoherence.