Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 2 September 2013.
Zac Goldsmith
Conservative, Richmond Park
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2013, Official Report, column 731W, on pollinators, whether his review of policy and evidence and national pollinator strategy will consider the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees and other pollinators.
David Heath
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The review referred to in the answer of
The Government has an ongoing commitment to keep the evidence on neonicotinoids and pollinators under active consideration. We are currently considering the further work that is needed on this issue, taking into account the European Commission's commitment to review the available evidence in 2015.
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