Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 28 February (HL5553), what were the risk factors and intelligence received which led the Food Standards Agency to sample (1) in 2015, 100 bottles of Italian wine and 12 bottles of UK wine, and (2) in 2016, 72 bottles of Italian wine and 6 bottles of UK wine; which wines were sampled; and what were the results of the sampling.

The information on the risk factors and intelligence received by the Food Standards Agency on each of the wines sampled in 2015 and 2016 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The information on wines sampled in 2015 and 2016 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.