| Heading: |
Japanese Knotweed: Weed Control |
| Question ID: |
1820341 |
| UIN: |
65531 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5362 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Angus MacDonald
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Mr Angus MacDonald
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support landowners in (a) managing and (b) eradicating Japanese knotweed. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-11 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
Defra recognises the impacts caused by invasive species, including Japanese knotweed. Japanese knotweed is listed on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This makes it an offence to cause Japanese knotweed to grow in the wild. In England G... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |