Question follow-through · 36698
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30440 on Housing: Construction, whether SANGS payments and other nature mitigation payments can be offset towards BNG payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30440 on Housing: Construction, whether SANGS payments and other nature mitigation payments can be offset towards BNG payments.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
We have published GOV.UK guidance on “what you can count towards a development’s biodiversity net gain”. This confirms that Suitable alternative natural green space can count in part, and also lists other schemes which can count either in full or in part ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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