Question follow-through · 92257
Biodiversity: Property Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to require local planning authorities to publish biodiversity net gain data and monitoring outcomes for developments in their area.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to require local planning authorities to publish biodiversity net gain data and monitoring outcomes for developments in their area.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Environment Act 2021 established a strengthened biodiversity duty, which requires local planning authorities to publish a biodiversity report at least every 5 years, setting out how they have complied with the duty. As part of this report, local plann...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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