Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 95943

Biodiversity

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to make sites below 0.5 hectares exempt from Biodiversity Net Gain.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...

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