Lindane

EDM number 236 in 1999-00, proposed by Norman Baker on 10/01/2000.

That this House notes that the pesticide Lindane is banned in Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand and a range of other countries but is still widely and legally used in Britain, that Lindane is used as a pesticide on farms in Britain, that products containing Lindane are approved for sale for domestic use, including ant killer and moth killer and that Lindane is classified by the World Health Organisation as a possible human carcinogen; and calls on the Government to follow the example of several other countries and ban the use of Lindane in this country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 90 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.