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Requested Information:

“PSGR make a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 request to Councillors (to be answered as one response from Councillors):
1. What concerns do Councillors hear from your constituents about gene editing technologies in food and the environment?
2. Have Councillors been made aware that there has been no risk assessment, economic assessment or cost-benefit assessment to assess the safety of the proposed Gene Technology Bill, including to structure some gene editing technologies and organisms completely outside of regulation?
3. Have Councillors been advised that the decision to remove the precautionary principle/approach was not made based on a review of best global practice?
4. Are Councillors aware that the gene edited technologies and organisms that following enactment of this Bill, that would be outside of regulation would never be monitored or declared?
4. How do you feel about the potential loss of local democratic control over GMO decisions in your region?
5. How might mayors collectively respond if the Gene Technology Bill overrides existing local precautionary and GMO policies without consultation (i.e. early-stage stakeholder consultation did not include elected members of TLAs)?”