Question follow-through · 23707
Biodiversity: British Overseas Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of his Department's total biodiversity budget was spent on supporting biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories in 2024-05.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of his Department's total biodiversity budget was spent on supporting biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories in 2024-05.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jan 2025
Answer published
UK Government biodiversity spend is across multiple organisations and this funding contributes to other objectives, such as water quality, net zero and food security. As such it is not possible to provide an exact figure of total domestic expenditure on b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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