GOWER MP Martin Caton has launched a Parliamentary campaign calling on the UK Government to halt the use of a new generation of pesticides linked to bee deaths until a review has been carried out. He tabled an Early Day Motion, welcoming the decision by Robert Watson, chief scientific advisor at Defra, to initiate a review of all the scientific research relating to bee and other pollinator decline and the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
"That this House welcomes the decision of Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to initiate a review of all the scientific research relating to bee and other pollinator decline and the use of neonicotinoid pesticides; believes the evidence that this group of insecticides debilitates a range of invertebrates to the extent that they are susceptible to lethal infections is convincing; recognises that, as neonicotinoids are systemic pesticides that are carried throughout plants to which they are applied, including pollen and nectar, they pose a particular threat to pollinating insects; urges the Governments therefore, to withdraw all licences for neonicotinoid pesticide use on plants producing nectar and pollen pending the conclusion of Professor Watson's review."
Session: 2010-11
Date tabled: 31.03.2011
Primary sponsor: Caton, Martin
Sponsors: Bottomley, Peter Corbyn, JeremyHopkins, Kelvin
Total number of signatures: 4
Sources: http://www.parliament.uk/edm/print/2010-11/1684
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/politics/MP-s-bee-appeal/article-3407…
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