29 November 2001, Report in Hansard of question to Leader of the House,
House of Commons from Mr. Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South):

"May we have a debate on GM contamination?

My right hon. Friend will be aware of this morning's news that
contaminated maize has turned up in a remote area of Mexico that is
separated by some 60 miles and several years from the last recorded GM
plantings in California.

Given that the UK has paltry separation distances, that UK farmers
cannot get insurance against GM contamination and that we have found
ourselves consistently blocked from having a GM producer liability
regime by the industry that wants to pursue the trials, could we have an

urgent debate in order to dispel the public myth and criticism that UK
policy is increasingly either in the pay or the pockets of a biotech
industry that is currently driven by a bunch of crooks and shysters?"