Asked by: Lord Fuller (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their most recent estimate of the total cost per dwelling for the purchase by developers of nutrient neutrality credits for phosphate and nitrogen respectively, including cost variations by catchment and region.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
There is broad variation in the cost of nutrient credits across nutrient neutrality areas, dependent on a range of factors such as the type of nutrient, the value of land and the nature of the intervention.