Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 127253

Equal Experts: Data Protection

Tabled: 14 April 2026

Answered: 21 April 2026

Named Day

Question

Greg Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether DEFRA has established whether Equal Experts, in conducting the BNG Metric Tool Discovery phase under contract C24064, accessed software products developed by private sector BNG

Answer

Mary Creagh

The 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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