Question follow-through · 65532
Japanese Knotweed: Weed Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in (a) managing and (b) eradicating Japanese knotweed.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in (a) managing and (b) eradicating Japanese knotweed.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
Defra recognises the impacts caused by invasive species, including Japanese knotweed. Japanese knotweed is listed on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This makes it an offence to cause Japanese knotweed to grow in the wild. In England G...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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