Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 78002

Swifts: Conservation

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Fabian Hamilton

LabourLeeds North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 32775 on Swifts: Conservation, what recent progress has been made in those discussions; and what steps she is taking to help incr

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra policy officials continue to work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government colleagues on swift brick policy, alongside wider nature and planning matters. As part of our work to develop a set of national planning policies for de...

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