| Heading: |
Neonicotinoids |
| Question ID: |
1779668 |
| UIN: |
34737 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5311 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Harriet Cross
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Harriet Cross
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to ban the use of neonicotinoids in UK agriculture. |
| Is named day: |
true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
Three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam – have not been authorised for general use as pesticides since 2018 because of the risks they pose to pollinators. An application for emergency use of the neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser S... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |