Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 81318

Swifts: Bricks

Tabled: 13 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2025 to Question 69634 on Swifts: Bricks, if she will make it her policy to amend the Statutory Biodiversity Net Gain metric to allow the installa

Answer

Mary Creagh

Swift bricks cannot be counted towards Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units, which must be calculated using the statutory biodiversity metric or its small sites version. The metric does not account for species-specific features, which are typically installed...

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