Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether an impact assessment was carried out by the Chemicals Regulation Division on each of the chemicals that were withdrawn by manufacturers during investigation of those chemicals by the (a) EU and (b) Chemicals Regulation Division; and what the (i) economic and (ii) environmental findings were of each of those impact assessments.

The Chemicals Regulation Division of the Health and Safety Executive assesses applications for UK authorisation of pesticides against the legal requirements concerning risks to human and environmental health and product efficacy. If an application is withdrawn or if a manufacturer asks for an authorisation to be ended, no further assessment is carried out.