Biodiversity

(asked on 25th January 2022) - View Source

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 is taking to implement the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust, HC 75, published on 30 June 2021.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 2nd February 2022

The Government’s response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report, ‘Biodiversity in the UK: Bloom or Bust’ was published in September 2021 on the Committee’s website: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/448/biodiversity-and-ecosystems/publications/.

Our response set out how we are acting against each of the Committee’s recommendations. Since then, we have brought forward the first Environment Act in over 20 years, with ambitious measures to address the biggest environmental priorities of our age, including restoring and enhancing biodiversity. The Act’s requirement to set a new, historic legally binding target to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030, underlines our ambition, on which we continue to act.

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