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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 7 May 2014.

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Photo of Keith Vaz Keith Vaz Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee 11:30, 7 May 2014

Last Thursday, the European Union ban on the import of Indian mangos took effect. As a result, hundreds of businesses in Leicester and throughout the UK will suffer millions of pounds of losses. There was no consultation with this House and no vote by British Ministers. Next week, the Prime Minister will have his first conversation with the new Indian Prime Minister. Will he do his best to reverse this ban so that we can keep our special relationship with India, which his predecessors and he have worked so hard to maintain, and have our delicious mangos once again?

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Robert Horner
Posted on 8 May 2014 7:29 pm (Report this annotation)

Mr Vaz,
You failed (as usual) to mention that these products were found to be infested with parasites and this is the ONLY reason they were banned by the EU
These parasites could very easily have contaminated our food crop production and cost this country billions of pounds of losses. Trying to make petty political points to get more of the Asian community to vote for you is just not on,the risk of food crop contamination is high as you are well aware so your comments are in my view ,a danger to the public health and very immature for a "senior"
(sic) politician.