Question follow-through · 3474
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to restore nature at scale.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Nature Conservation · 21 May 2026
- Animal Welfare · 11 Jun 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to restore nature at scale.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
Defra is delivering the biodiversity targets, including restoring or creating 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside protected sites by 2042. Since January 2023, action has been taken on 77,638 hectares to create or restore this habitat. In add...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Nature Conservation
21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains her policy to maintain the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 in their current form.
Animal Welfare
11 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the consultation on mandatory health and welfare proposals will consider (a) increasing responsibilities on animal owners owners and (b) making animal seizure and prosecution e