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Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Dan Rogerson: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have been waiting patiently and listening to the many important contributions we have heard, including some of the earlier remarks by the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner), although he then went off a bit into whatever had been prepared for him elsewhere. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton), a fellow Cornish MP, for...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Barry Gardiner: ...Friend makes a good point. He will know my penchant for whistling around the place, emulating those very birds he wants to return. The impact on our crops of the insects continuing to disappear has been calculated at more than £600 million a year. Some insecticides that farmers use to increase yield kill not only the insects that destroy the crops, but those that pollinate them. I would...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Mark Lazarowicz: ...of reducing pesticide use. Again, the Government need to do more on that, and I endorse what the hon. Gentleman has said. Finally, I should like the Minister to answer a mystery that I have been trying to work out for a while. When the Environmental Audit Committee visited Brussels a couple of years ago, we were asked by a Commission official about why the UK had stopped seeking funding...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Matthew Offord: ...(Sarah Newton) on securing it. I also pay tribute to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley). As Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee, of which I am a member, she has been a pivotal figure on the issue of pollinators and pesticides and a driving force in enabling the Committee to consider these matters. I welcome the national pollinator strategy, and I am very...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Kerry McCarthy: ...justice to that issue, and several other Members have mentioned it as well. In the limited time available, therefore, I shall concentrate on urban pollination, a subject that I do not think has been raised today. Needless to say, Bristol is at the forefront of some of the work that is currently being done. Professor Jane Memmott of the university of Bristol has drawn attention to the...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Kerry McCarthy: I do not play golf, but I have seen reports suggesting that it is the least environmentally beneficial sport because of its huge water footprint. If it can make some redress for that by planting plenty of wild flowers, it will at least be doing its bit. Next year Bristol will be the European green capital, and in preparation for that we are doing some exciting work under the banner “Get...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Roger Williams: ...of the Earth, which contained one sentence that I was very taken with: “A scientific review of pollination services in 41 countries across Europe found that the UK only has a quarter of the honey bees it needs for pollination”. That struck me as an extraordinarily disturbing figure, so I e-mailed Friends of the Earth last night. They came back with an answer that said, “Well, we...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Neil Carmichael: Does my hon. Friend agree when I say—or at least assert—that if we get a proper plan that works for bees and is seen to be working for bees in this country, other countries will take it on as a code of good practice? That would be extraordinarily good for them as it would be for us.

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Joan Walley: I would say this, wouldn’t I, but the work record of the worker bees on the Environmental Audit Committee is second to none. It is worthy, perhaps, of a detailed meeting with the Minister before he finalises and signs off the national pollinator strategy. We still have concerns, some of which I think are echoed by the organisations that contributed. We welcome the work that has been done so...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Joan Walley: ...the national pollinator strategy. On the precautionary principle, the Government are using poetic licence in their interpretation of the UN’s Rio declaration and the work arising from it. As has been said, where there is not final scientific evidence, we should use the precautionary principle. This should not be trumped by economic issues; if protection is needed for habitats that cannot...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

David Heath: ...strategy and what we do in this country about pollinators, and to pick up on the issues that are still to be resolved in the development of the strategy. I make no secret of the fact that I have been interested in this subject for a long time. I asked questions in the House eight or nine years ago about what the then Government proposed to do about bee health. They did nothing for some...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

David Heath: ...to suggest that the hazard that undoubtedly existed and could be demonstrated in sub-lethal quantities in a test tube or laboratory, represented a risk in field conditions, because no work had been done on that. I hope that work has now been done to substantiate that properly one way or another, because such a lacuna in information is unsupportable when it comes to making a competent and...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Alan Whitehead: ...in that strategy, particularly those that arise from the work that the EAC has done on the matter. I join the hon. Lady in emphasising that we are talking about pollinators, not just about domestic bees, or even wild bees, although it has been important that a lot of the campaigning on these matters has related to Members and other people in public positions standing next to people dressed...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Neil Carmichael: As somebody who has done the bee photograph twice, I know exactly what the hon. Gentleman means. Does he agree that the essence of our Environmental Audit Committee report is that there is a strong case for protecting bees and that our work should inform a proper national plan?

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Alan Whitehead: Absolutely. The hon. Gentleman has anticipated what I was going to say. I hope he was not one of the people wearing a bee outfit who stood next to me; I think he probably stood next to somebody else in a bee outfit. The “Bee Cause” campaign and various others have done well to concentrate on the threats that pollinators face, but we should reflect not just on bees, both domestic and wild,...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Sarah Newton: ..., my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose), who is a beekeeper. He did so much work in the previous Parliament to represent not only his constituents but the nation’s honey bees. I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for selecting this topic for today’s debate and to my colleagues for joining me here this afternoon. This debate provides a timely...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Neil Parish: I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for bringing this matter to the House. This year, the climate has been good and the bee population, which is important, has risen. What we need to focus on is having bee-friendly crops not only around fields but along the railway lines and elsewhere. We must take a proactive role in growing more crops, so that there is more food for bees, which will...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Michael Ellis: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and for bringing this debate to the Floor of the House. Does she agree that bees and our other pollinators are an absolutely essential prerequisite for biodiversity and our eco-system? They are important in many and varied ways, especially with regard to food prices. If we have problems with our pollinators for whatever reason—there are myriad...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Sarah Newton: My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point because a great many of our crops rely on pollination. In some countries, especially America, where pollinators have been wiped out from whole sectors of agriculture, more expensive hand pollination is being introduced. Only last week I saw that UK universities are undertaking research to invent mechanical replicas of bees. Such is the threat...

Cycling: National Pollinator Strategy (16 Oct 2014)

Maria Miller: Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the work of conservation volunteer groups, which do so much to nurture flower meadows in a way that is so important for the bee and insect population? In particular, I would like to pay tribute to the Old Down and Beggarwood wildlife group in my constituency.


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