Question follow-through · 74619
Crops: Genetically Modified Organisms
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to take steps to amend the regulation of genome-edited crops.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to take steps to amend the regulation of genome-edited crops.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government has been undertaking a programme of regulatory reform for precision breeding. The Precision Breeding Act 2023 sets out a more proportionate and science-based regulatory framework for precision breeding that encourages innovation and enables...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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