Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 89277

Japanese Knotweed: Weed Control

Tabled: 10 November 2025

Answered: 18 November 2025

Question

Alex Brewer

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2025 to Question 77864 on Non-native Species: Weed Control, if she will make it her policy to offer funding to homeowners for the (a) treatment and

Answer

Mary Creagh

Japanese knotweed is listed on Schedule 9, and subject to Section 14, of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 which makes it an offence to plant or otherwise cause this species to grow in the wild. There is no explicit obligation upon landowners to manag...

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