Question follow-through · 65960
Property Development: Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) securing and (b) verifying Biodiversity Net Gain credits on small and medium-sized developers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) securing and (b) verifying Biodiversity Net Gain credits on small and medium-sized developers.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
Statutory credits are a last resort way of achieving biodiversity net gain (BNG). They are different from biodiversity units, which are sold in the offsite market. If developers buy statutory credits, this is because it is not possible to restore habitats...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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