Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 99640

Nature Conservation: Business

Tabled: 12 December 2025

Answered: 18 December 2025

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department has issued to businesses on how they can contribute to local habitat restoration projects.

Answer

Mary Creagh

Defra has published biodiversity net gain (BNG) guidance on how a business can get involved with providing biodiversity units to developers who need to go off-site for BNG. This can either be through selling units independently on land owned, or working w...

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