United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL13768
Agriculture: Pests
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14 February 2019
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27 February 2019 · Answer
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27 February 2019
Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential risk to agricultural products in the UK through the import of goods or vehicles carrying the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys.
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14 February 2019
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential risk to agricultural products in the UK through the import of goods or vehicles carrying the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys.
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27 February 2019
Answer
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, is an insect from eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). It has no established populations in the UK. We are aware that it has spread into the USA and to mainland Europe. For example, it was first...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-02-14/HL13768
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1061388
- uk · wq-1061388 · source updated 27 February 2019