Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 73238
Lighting: Biodiversity
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025
Question
Sarah Hall
Labour (Co-op) — Warrington South
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of light pollution on biodiversity.
Answer
Mary CreaghDefra has supported international assessments of drivers of change on insects and wider biodiversity such as the global IPBES Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production (2016), which notes that the effect of light on nocturnal insec...
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