Question follow-through · 80005
Birds: Special Protection Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to instruct Natural England to develop proposals for new Special Protection Areas for vulnerable bird species.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to instruct Natural England to develop proposals for new Special Protection Areas for vulnerable bird species.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
In May 2025, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) released the Third Special Protection Areas (SPAs) Review (Phase 2), assessing the UK’s SPA network and its protection of bird species. The report offers guidance from JNCC and the UK’s four stat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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