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Pesticides: Regulation

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL487, tabled on 30 July 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to impose restrictions on the sale of herbicides, insecticides, nematicides, fungicides or other pesticides to domestic users.

Answered on

5 August 2024

The Government is currently reviewing its pesticide policies.

A pesticide may only be placed on the market in GB if the product has been authorised by our expert regulator, the Health and Safety Executive, following a thorough scientific risk assessment that concludes all safety standards are met. Pesticides that pose unacceptable risks are not authorised.