Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 99635
Biodiversity: Property Development
Tabled: 12 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025
Question
Mr Lee Dillon
Liberal Democrat — Newbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of long-term lags between developers-funding and achievement of full habitat development under biodiversity
Answer
Mary CreaghThe biodiversity net gain metric includes a temporal risk multiplier which takes into account the average time lag between the start of habitat works and the target outcome. This ‘time to target’ multiplier recognises and takes account of the time it take...
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