Question follow-through · 127481
Biodiversity: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the Equal Experts Discovery Report, including appendices and supporting research materials, before further public expenditure on the Alpha and Beta phases of the BN
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the Equal Experts Discovery Report, including appendices and supporting research materials, before further public expenditure on the Alpha and Beta phases of the BN
21 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The statutory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) metric is a Government‑owned tool and is currently only available to users in spreadsheet format. The existing tool has well‑recognised issues relating to accessibility, usability, and data integrity, which the Go...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Biodiversity: Planning Permission
20 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding for the Alpha phase of the BNG metric digitisation programme was based on the Equal Experts Discovery Report on error rates in BNG metric submissions.