Question follow-through · 8314

Larger Eight-toothed European Spruce Bark Beetles

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the damage caused by the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle to trees in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 9 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2024
Answer: 16 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the damage caused by the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle to trees in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle is a quarantine pest of spruce tree species and is not native to the UK. The Forestry Commission have a nationwide surveillance programme in place to monitor for incursions of this pest, which spreads naturally from Eu...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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