Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 127626
Biodiversity: Planning Permission
Tabled: 15 April 2026
Answered: 21 April 2026
Named DayQuestion
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date her Department first became aware of written representations from private sector companies alleging procedural irregularities in the BNG metric digitisation procurement; w
Answer
Mary CreaghThe statutory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) metric is a Government‑owned tool and is currently only available to users in spreadsheet format. The existing tool has well‑recognised issues relating to accessibility, usability, and data integrity, which the Go...
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