Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 34555

Pesticides: Bees

Tabled: 27 February 2025

Answered: 4 March 2025

Named Day

Question

David Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of harmful pesticides on the number of bees in Hertfordshire.

Answer

Emma Hardy

Defra has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact of pesticides on Hertfordshire’s bee population. Defra funds a monitoring programme providing information about the concentrations of different pesticides in honey collected from beehives ac...

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