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Pets: Insecticides |
| Question ID: |
1786114 |
| UIN: |
HL5886 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3310 |
| Asking Member display name: |
The Earl of Caithness
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The Earl of Caithness
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to restricting tick and flea treatments for pets containing fipronil or imidacloprid to prescription only, in the light of evidence of their human and environmental toxicity and their detr |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
Parasiticides, such as those containing fipronil and imidacloprid, play an essential role in protecting both animal and human health against fleas and ticks and their associated vector-borne diseases, which can lead to parasitic disease in pets and presen... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |