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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2015 to Question 2828, if she will publish the advice she has received from (a) the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides, (b) her Department's Chief Scientific Adviser and (c) experts from the Chemicals Regulation Directorate of the Health and Safety Executive on the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam and other neonicotinoid pesticides.

The advice of the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides on recent applications for emergency authorisation of the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam on oilseed rape was published online at:

www.pesticides.gov.uk/guidance/industries/pesticides/advisory-groups/acp/ACP-News/ECP-Letters-and-Communications.

The advice of Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser will also be published online in the next few days. Copies will be placed in the House of Commons Library.