Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for the publication of the findings of the cross-Administration UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership.

Through the UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership, UK Administrations are working with BEIS and Defra to address key research questions relating to our policy on blue carbon. One of the first aims of the Partnership has been to identify and then clearly set out the most pressing research questions relating to blue carbon within an Evidence Needs Statement that will act as a signal to the research community. The UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership plans to publish the Evidence Needs Statement in Spring 2023.