Agriculture: Fungicides
Commons · Question 105295 · Tabled 13 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 19 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential (a) implications for her policies of routine use of fungicides in the seed supply chain and (b) impact of their use on (i) integrated pe
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 19 Jan 2026
Plant protection products (PPPs - also known as pesticides) may only be placed on the market in Great Britain (GB) if they have been authorised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), GB’s pesticide regulator. This only happens following a thorough scie...