Part of Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 27 January 2005.
Ms Sue Doughty
Shadow Minister (the Environment), Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
4:45,
27 January 2005
I am grateful to the Minister, and I appreciate that reply. I believe that English Nature has also raised with his Department the point about the potential environmental damage, and again I look forward to some clarity about that. The organisation Buglife would be very interested in making representations to the Minister and his Department. If we are trying to deal with the flies arising from slurry, I would like to know that we are not blocking out a whole area of insect life and impacting on pollination, the food chain and the entire ecosystem.
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