Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from charities, experts and lobby groups on the UK bee population.
The Government has received many representations from charities, experts and lobby groups about bees. We are working with more than 15 partners to help deliver the National Pollinator Strategy, including: the Soil Association, the Bee Farmers’ Association, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Country Landowners & Business Association, Friends of the Earth, the British Beekeepers Association, the National Trust, Buglife, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the Wildlife Trusts, Pesticide Action Network UK, CIRIA, Plantlife, the Campaign for the Farmed Environment and universities.