Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 85822

Hen Harriers: Conservation

Tabled: 28 October 2025
Answered: 26 November 2025

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

ConservativeThirsk and Malton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of spending by (a) her Department and (b) Natural England on (i) the upland Brood Management Scheme and (ii) the Southern Reintroduction project;

Answer

Mary Creagh
These programmes were created as part of the Joint Action Plan for the Recovery of the English Hen Harrier Population, put in place in 2016. The Hen Harrier brood management trial and the Southern Reintroduction project were funded by Defra and led by Nat...

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