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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many species of plants the UK has provided for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in each of the last five years.

In the last five years the UK has provided the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with seeds from one plant species - Nightshade (from the Solanum genus of flowering plants). Through our Millennium Seed bank at Kew, Defra works closely with the Global Crop Diversity Trust who manage the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.