Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 51981

Agriculture: Pollinators

Tabled: 13 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist PartyUpper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of declining (a) bee and (b) pollinator populations on UK food production and what steps he is taking to promote

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
This Government is committed to halting the decline in species abundance by 2030 and reversing species decline, reducing the risk of species extinction and restoring and creating more than 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside protected sites ...

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