Japanese Knotweed

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 12 June 2018.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:07, 12 June 2018

They say that only certain things will survive a nuclear holocaust in this country: one being E. coli, the second being cockroaches, and the third—the certainty that this question will keep coming up on the order paper in this place.

You may have heard recently that there have been some ideas that perhaps we should eat more of this Japanese knotweed as it's full of vitamins and minerals. We can't eat our way out of this problem, obviously, so my main question to you is: have you had any information from local authorities that there has been any illegal dumping of Japanese knotweed in our landfill sites?