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

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, in accordance with the commitment of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference Canada in 2022, before COP 16 starts in Colombia on 21 October.

The four nations of the UK and the relevant UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies worked together to submit our “National Targets” on the 1st of August, committing us to meeting all 23 of the Global Biodiversity Framework targets at home. This means that our ambitious commitments to nature will be fully reflected in the global review being conducted at COP16. The UK National Targets are underpinned by a robust set of specific commitments and policies at UK and national level to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. These will be updated as new and revised policies are introduced. But it is clear there remains much more to be done for nature’s recovery. We will publish the full UK National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) in due course, detailing further delivery plans and future ambitions.