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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she has received on the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam and other neonicotinoid pesticides.

The government believes decisions on pesticides should be based on scientific evidence. Ministers have taken advice from a variety of expert sources on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. This includes the independent UK Expert Committee on Pesticides (ECP), Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser, and experts from the Chemicals Regulation Directorate of the Health and Safety Executive.