Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49089

Planning: Biodiversity

Tabled: 29 April 2025

Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

James Naish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) resources, (b) mechanisms and (c) funding his Department plans to make available to enable effective (i) monitoring and (ii) enforcement of on-site biodiversity net gain.

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Government has provided over £35 million of new burdens funding to Local Planning Authorities (LPAs), county councils and combined authorities thus far to help them implement mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG). The uses to which the funding can be ...

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