Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 22660

Nature Conservation

Tabled: 8 January 2025

Answered: 13 January 2025

Named Day

Question

Gill Furniss

Labour — Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) protect natural habitats and (b) promote biodiversity net gain.

Answer

Mary Creagh

In England we are committed to nature protection and recovery. This includes delivering our legally binding biodiversity target to restore or create more than 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat by 2042. We will create, restore and connect wildlife-...

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