Question follow-through · 14855
Pesticides
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce (a) agricultural and (b) horticultural pesticide use.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce (a) agricultural and (b) horticultural pesticide use.
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) lies at the heart of our approach to minimise the environmental impact of pesticides. IPM is a holistic approach that promotes a range of plant protection methods and keeps the use of pesticides to levels that are ecologic...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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