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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department made during the Parliamentary summer recess on production of the 25-year plan for the environment.

On 21 July, in his speech “Delivering a Green Brexit”, the Secretary of State announced that he had asked the Natural Capital Committee for their advice on the 25 Year Environment Plan. The Natural Capital Committee are due to submit their advice in September. The Department will consider that advice carefully ahead of the subsequent publication of the Plan.