Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49090

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 assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of ringfencing funding for local authorities from planning fees for (a) monitoring and (b) enforcing on-site biodiversit

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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