Pesticides: Bees Debate
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Baroness Parminter
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Pesticides: Bees
Baroness Parminter Excerpts(11 years, 9 months ago)
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Lord De Mauley
First, I categorically agree with the noble Lord that we need to talk about all pollinators. Bees are an important pollinator, but there are several other important ones. As regards his other question, those are assertions that have come out of eminently acceptable laboratory trials. Our proposal is that what is needed, and what is lacking, is evidence of what actually happens in the field.
Baroness Parminter
My Lords, given that multiple threats face these important pollinators, do the Government plan to introduce a national bee strategy to reverse the decline in bee numbers?