Soil: Environment Protection
(asked on 29th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to release their definition of "sustainable management" of soils under the Environmental Improvement Plan.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 9th November 2026
Defra’s definition of sustainable soil management is published in the glossary of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025. It is described as: practices that maintain or enhance the ecosystem services provided by the soil without impairing the functions enabling those services or being detrimental to other properties of the environment.