Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 105295

Agriculture: Fungicides

Tabled: 13 January 2026

Answered: 19 January 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential (a) implications for her policies of routine use of fungicides in the seed supply chain and (b) impact of their use on (i) integrated pe

Answer

Emma Hardy

Plant protection products (PPPs – also known as pesticides) may only be placed on the market in Great Britain (GB) if they have been authorised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), GB’s pesticide regulator. This only happens following a thorough scie...

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