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date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Neonicotinoids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to maintain the ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on the approval of pesticide active substances are made at European level. Since December 2013, three of the five currently approved neonicotinoids are not permitted for use on a wide range of crops considered “attractive to bees”. A number of other uses remain permitted under the EU approval. The restrictions currently in place for neonicotinoids are not time-limited.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The European Commission gave an undertaking to commence a review of the science on neonicotinoids by the end of May 2015. This process has now commenced. Companies have provided further studies and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has invited any party to submit relevant data, including published studies, by 30 September 2015.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/06/2015 13:39:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has conducted trials in gassing of badger sets to control the spread of tuberculosis in cattle.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	209823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Research into alternative methods for dealing with the risk of M. bovis from badgers (e.g. sett-based culling methods and non-lethal methods) is underway. This includes investigations into the potential use of gas as a sett-based means of humane culling.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These tests for the potential use of carbon monoxide will not involve badgers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/10/2014 11:46:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe