Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to establish the geographical boundaries for the delivery of local nature recovery plans.
The Government anticipates that there will be roughly fifty Local Nature Recovery Strategies which together will cover the whole of England with no gaps and no overlaps. Precise boundaries will be established by the Defra Secretary of State on a case-by-case basis so that every Local Nature Recovery Strategy covers an area that is both large enough to plan for nature recovery across landscapes and meaningful to local people.
It is anticipated that in many cases there will be one Local Nature Recovery Strategy per county (or equivalent), but individual geographies will be set according to an assessment of local circumstances. We will shortly be confirming which designated authorities will lead on the drafting of the strategies, and their relevant boundary.