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Pesticides

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 131110, tabled on 24 January 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides will include a commitment to introduce pesticide use reduction targets.

Answered on

30 January 2023

We are assessing the potential role of targets to support our policy ambitions, and further details will be outlined in our National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, to be published in the first half of this year. Any targets that we set must be meaningful and designed to deliver our desired outcomes – to minimise the risks of pesticides to the environment and encourage sustainable pest management.

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