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  Government     

NCW, working with its affiliated societies, is the leading women’s organisation responding to consultation papers from the Government and other agencies.  Copies of the submission documents are published periodically and can be obtained from the  Darlington Office, price £3 per issue including postage. 

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• Issue 22:  January 2001– March 2001        
  Benefits to consumers provided by GMOs • The general principles of food law • Connections with consumer organisations • Towards equal pay • The Pension Credit • Reforming the law on sex offences • Work and parents • Community Health Councils • Whose Hands on Your Genes? • Raising the awareness of FGM in the UK • Road Traffic Penalties • Unlicensed medicines of Aristolochia species • Consumer participation in the decision making process 
  
  

•  Issue 23:  April 2001 – July 2001   
  Ban on swill feeding • Directive on Food Supplements • T25 GM Maize ‘Chardon LL’ • Strategy for a future chemical policy  • Mutual recognition of driving disqualifications  • Interim response to the report of the BSE Inquiry  • UK Fuel Poverty Strategy • Statement on contemporary forms of slavery • Culture and Creativity:  the Next Ten Years • Draft of the Railway Safety Regulations 2001 • Distance selling of food and animal feed  • DETR Integrated Transport Research • Young runaways • Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees: • NCW Statement on Racism • Genetics and human behaviour • Uptake of GM agriculture      
  
  

• Issue 24:  July 2001 – December 2001
  Consumer and Corporations • Protecting Children from Unhealthy Food Advertising • Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco • Private Hire Driver Licensing • Review of Animal Feed Labelling • Genetically Modified Food and Feed • GM Traceability and Labelling • Work and Parents • Transport Social Exclusion • Cluster Bombs • Vehicle Licensing • Permanent Exclusion from Schools • EU Driving Disqualification • Taste Trials and Human Volunteer Studies • Food Labelling: Ingredients and Allergens • Expert Support for the Development of Foundation Stage Practice • Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 
  
  

• Issue 25:  January 2002 – March 2002 
  Tariffs in Murder Cases • European Common Transport Policy White Paper • Draft Animal By-products (Identification) Regulations 2002  • Media ownership rules • Commonwealth Development Corporation letter • Quality Parish and Town Councils • Infant Formulae, Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods • Powering Future Vehicles  • Joint Inquiry into Train Protection Systems  • Blue Badge Scheme discussion paper  • Pesticides Risk Assessment  • Contaminants in Food • Food Labelling: Country of Origin • 21st Amendment to the Marketing and Use Directive 76/769/EEC • 25th Amendment to the Marketing and Use Directive 76/769/EEC • Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy • Jelly Confectionery Additive E425 Konjac • Dispensing by Veterinary Surgeons
   
  

• Issue 26:  April 2002 – July 2002 
  The European Commission medicines regulatory system • Better Medicines for Children • European Food Safety Authority Management Board Candidates  • Introducing a More Structured Approach to Learning to Drive • Sustainable Food and Farming: Working Together • Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products • Trafficking In Women – Reported Albanian Involvement • Milk tokens for HIV mothers seeking asylum • Age discrimination in employment • National Standards for Under Eights’ Day Care and Child Minding
   
  

• Issue 27: August 2002 - December 2002
  Modernisation of Regulation and New Fee Strategy (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) • Use of the Term ‘Pure’ in Fruit Juice Labelling • Private Hire Vehicles: Driver Licensing • FSA Position Document on Food Assurance Schemes • Ionising Radiations Regulations • The Supply of Genetic Tests Direct to the Public • Exclusion of Pupils from School • Genetically Modified Crops • Advertising Aimed at Children • A National Commissioner for Children • Use of Hand-Held Mobile Phones While Driving • Phytoestrogens and Health • Genetically Modified Food and Feed • Irradiated Foods • the Five-a-Day Campaign • ‘Healthy Start’ Consultation
   

• Issue 28:January 2003 – March 2003         
  Military Action against Iraq • Entitlement Cards • Amendments to EU regulation 999/2001 • Marketing and use directive 76/769/EEC • Sex Selection • Equality and Diversity • Child resistant packaging • Red tractor scheme • Unnecessary Hysterectomies • Ethics for international trade in food • Evaluation of work on food standards • Single Equality Commission • Addition of vitamins to foods • Working and Saving for Retirement • UNICEF Appeal for Iraqi Children • Human Genetics Work Plan
  
  

• Issue 29:April 2003 – July 2003        
  Women suffering abuse • Cluster bombs • Position of women in Iraq • United Nation’s Information Centre closure • Iraqi women and UN Security Resolution 1325 • London Child Care Strategy • Cluster bombs • Advertising aimed at children Driving under the influence of drugs • Violence against women in ‘Eastenders’ • Over Thirty Months Rule • British Food Fortnight  • Smoking in films • Private hire vehicles – exterior signage • NCW submission to the GM debate
   

• Issue 30:  August 2003 – October 2003        
  HFEA consultation on the draft Sixth Edition Code of Practice • The use of GM crops in developing countries  Food and Health Action Plan • Risk assessment of mixtures of pesticides and similar substances • Mental health and social exclusion • Safety and Justice – the Governments proposals on domestic violence • Consumer education • Equality and Diversity – Age matters
   

• Issue 31:  November 2004 – February 2004
  United Nations International Year of Fresh Water Widows in Nigeria • Voluntary and Community Infrastructure • Drug Treatment for Osteoporosis • 
  The Goodison Review • Gangmasters Licensing Bill
   

• Issue 32:  March 2004 – June 2004   
  Pensions for Women • A Future Fair for All • The Way to Go for Transport • Bovine Tuberculosis • Food Standards Agency Strategic Plan • Action Plan on Food Promotions and Children’s Diets
     

• Issue 33:  June 2004 – September 2004  Choosing Health?  &  Choosing a Better Diet • Human Embryo Research Licence Fees • Implementation of New EU Regulations on GMOs • Legislation on Identity Cards  • White Paper on the Commission for Equality and Human Rights  • Co-existence of GM and non-GM crops • Report on Campylobacter • Optional Protocol to CEDAW UN Security Council Resolution 1325 • Review of the utility of the pain reliever co-proxamol MHRA  
  
  

• Issue 34:  October 2004 – April 2004   
  Prostitution • EU Medicines legislation • Sudden Infant deaths • Education and HIV • Children with behavioural difficulties • Closures of scientific teaching and research centres • A single Civil Court • Tomorrow's children
  
  

• Issue 35:  May 2005 – June 2005   
  Bad driving offences  • BSE testing • Prolonging life in foetuses and newborn • Work and families • BBC Charter •  Railways for all
  
  

• Issue 36:  October 2005 – February 2006
  Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing • Forced Marriage • European Working Time Directive • Draft Guidance on Allergen Control and Consumer Information Education Outside the Classroom Manifesto • Risks associated with the use of hormonal substances in food producing animals • Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
  
  

• Issue 37:  February 2006 – April 2006     
  Response to the New Deal for Welfare • Our Energy Challenge • Review of Rabies Disease Import Control Policy • Controlling the spread of Bovine Tuberculosis  in cattle • Draft report on Botulism in Cattle • Letter on Folic Acid • Letter on Maternity Services • Response to consultation on Eliminating World Poverty • Response by NCW to Women’s National Commission on the Consultation on Development ~ Correspondence ~ Response to proposals for a UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking + correspondence    
   

• Issue 38:  June 2006 – January 2007   
  Public Health - ethical issues • Draft pesticide residue minimisation guides for five crops • Proposals for managing the co-existence of GM, conventional and organic crops
   

• Issue 39:  January 2007 - June2007   
  Guidance for school staff • Exclusions from school • Regulations under Education Act 2002, §62A • Water efficiency in new buildings • Delivering good animal welfare • Forensic use of bio-information • Meeting the world's future agricultural needs

• Issue 40:  July 2007 - October 2007
  Effective consultation • Update on Code
  of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees
  • Questionnaire on National Provisions in the UK Food Labelling Regulations 1996 • Response to the NICE appraisal consultation document on age-related
  macular degeneration

• Issue 41:  November 2007 - March 2008
  Age-related macular degeneration • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency 'Challenges and Priorities' • The protection of waters against pollution from agriculture • DEFRA 'The Third Sector' •  Code of practice for drinks provided in schools