Question follow-through · 48175
Pesticides: Public Places
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) banning and (b) reducing the use of pesticides in public spaces on (i) the natural environment and (ii) wildlife.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) banning and (b) reducing the use of pesticides in public spaces on (i) the natural environment and (ii) wildlife.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of managing public spaces sustainably and its first priority is to ensure that pesticides do not harm human or animal health or pose unacceptable risks to the environment. A pesticide may only be placed on the mark...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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