Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 28157

Japanese Knotweed: Nottinghamshire

Tabled: 3 February 2025
Answered: 11 February 2025

Question

Juliet Campbell

LabourBroxtowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding to help tackle the knotweed in Nottinghamshire.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government recognises the impacts caused by invasive species, including Japanese knotweed. Funding is available for control and management of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plant species through Defra’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) Countr...

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