| Heading: |
Ash Dieback Disease |
| Question ID: |
1810516 |
| UIN: |
HL8231 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4719 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
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| Asking Member handle: |
natalieben
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@natalieben
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that valuable, potentially tolerant, or disease-resistant trees, such as ash trees that have survived chalara ash dieback, are not unnecessarily felled. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
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| Is holding answer: |
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: |
From observations in Europe and the UK, we expect 1-5% of ash trees to show useful levels of genetic resistance to ash dieback, caused by the fungal pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus. Resistance is heritable which offers hope for a future breeding programm... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |