Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the health of wild pollinating insects in Yorkshire and the Humber.
The UK Government collates data and publishes indicators showing trends in abundance and distribution of pollinating insects at national scale on an annual basis. These are available at http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6851. We have not assessed the size or health of wild pollinator populations at county level.
Data collected by volunteers on the status of wild species locally is available through the websites of various National Schemes and Societies or through the Biological Records Centre, which is supported by public bodies including the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Research Councils.