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 Creagh
Defra 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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