Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 77593

Birds: Conservation

Tabled: 16 September 2025
Answered: 14 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help protect populations of the (a) House Sparrow and (b) Song Thrush in the South East.

Answer

Mary Creagh
This Government is committed to restoring and protecting nature. In England, we have four legally binding targets for biodiversity: to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030; to reverse declines by at least 10% by 2042, when compared with 2030; to ...

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