Question follow-through · 19560
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish his Department's consultation on a broader definition of irreplaceable habitat.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish his Department's consultation on a broader definition of irreplaceable habitat.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Irreplaceable habitat includes some of England’s most ecologically valuable terrestrial and intertidal habitats. The list of irreplaceable habitats in the biodiversity net gain regulations broadly mirrors the non-exhaustive list of examples of irreplaceab...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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