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Nature Conservation: Business

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department has issued to businesses on how they can contribute to local habitat restoration projects.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 12 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2025
Answer: 18 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department has issued to businesses on how they can contribute to local habitat restoration projects.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
Defra has published biodiversity net gain (BNG) guidance on how a business can get involved with providing biodiversity units to developers who need to go off-site for BNG. This can either be through selling units independently on land owned, or working w...

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