Question follow-through · 77593

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help protect populations of the (a) House Sparrow and (b) Song Thrush in the South East.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
14 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 16 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help protect populations of the (a) House Sparrow and (b) Song Thrush in the South East.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 14 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to restoring and protecting nature. In England, we have four legally binding targets for biodiversity: to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030; to reverse declines by at least 10% by 2042, when compared with 2030; to ...

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