Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of crops on which neonicotinoids have been used; and if he will list those crops.

The three neonicotinoids covered by the EU restrictions are currently authorised for use in the UK on the following 25 crops: wheat; barley; oats; rye; durum wheat; triticale; sugar beet; fodder beet; potato; carrot; swede; ornamental plants; forest nursery; broccoli/calabrese; brussels sprout; cabbage; oriental cabbage; cauliflower; endive; kale; lettuce; apple; pear; hops and nursery fruit trees.