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date	14/03/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Nature Conservation: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support her Department is providing to help safeguard and support vulnerable species in the British Overseas Territories.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	165239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>Defra is committed to improving outcomes for biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories through initiatives such as the Darwin Plus programme. Darwin Plus is a competitive UK Government grants scheme that provides funding for biodiversity and conservation projects in the Territories. Since 2012, Darwin Plus has invested more than £44 million in over 200 projects in the Overseas Territories.</p><p> </p><p>We have further committed to make available £10 million each year until 2025 for Darwin Plus, and to improve and expand the Darwin Plus programme so that it better meets the needs of the Overseas Territories. In January, we introduced Darwin Plus Local, which is a new scheme to support small scale environmental projects exclusively in the Territories, with the aim of building capacity and contributing to local economies. Later this year, we will publish more information on our plans to develop Darwin Plus Strategic: this will be a new scheme for larger, more ambitious projects, aimed at driving transformative and long-lasting results for OT biodiversity.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is working closely with Governments of the Overseas Territories to develop a new, shared UK Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy. The Strategy is being designed as a tool to guide and attract long-term investment in supporting the Territories’ biodiversity. Supported by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Defra is currently engaging stakeholders in-territory, online and in the UK, to ensure the Strategy will meet the needs and priorities of all fourteen Territories. The Strategy is due to be published in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/03/2023 13:20:52 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

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registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Nature Conservation: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many of the species in the UK's Overseas Territories have had their conservation status assessed.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	209783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office recently funded a project led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to carry out the first ever stocktake of species in the UK’s Overseas Territories (UKOTs). The study, completed between January 2013 and March 2014, brought together all known species records and conservation assessments. It found that there are at least 1,500 endemic species in the UKOTs and that 145 (9%) of these have had their global conservation status assessed.</p><p> </p><p>The report of the study’s findings, ‘The UK’s Wildlife Overseas: A stocktake of nature in our Overseas Territories’, was published on 5 June 2014 and can be found on the RSPB’s website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/whatwedo/projects/details.aspx?id=369443" target="_blank">www.rspb.org.uk/whatwedo/projects/details.aspx?id=369443</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/10/2014 14:26:17 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

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registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Nature Conservation: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office publication, Overseas Territories, Security, Success and Sustainability, published in November 2012, what progress her Department has made on each of the environmental Priorities for Action in that paper; and what further steps she plans to take to deliver those priorities.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	209787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>In the UK we work across Government to deliver co-ordinated support to the Territories on natural environment issues. Each Department leads on its respective areas of responsibility. Under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s White Paper, ‘The Overseas Territories: Security, Success and Sustainability’, Defra leads on biodiversity and climate change adaptation and is committed to providing support for endangered species and habitats. This includes work through the ‘Darwin Plus: Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund’ launched in October 2012 and implementation of the UK Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy. Together with its Agencies, Defra has continued to provide technical and policy advice and ensured the delivery of key research in the Territories.</p><p> </p><p>We recently published a comprehensive update on ongoing and planned UK Government activities in support of the UK Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy, which sets out in detail some of our activities in these areas:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-overseas-territories-biodiversity-strategy-update" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-overseas-territories-biodiversity-strategy-update</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Actions range from co-funding an officer based in the Falkland Islands, responsible for implementing the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels on behalf of the South Atlantic Overseas Territories, to funding environmental mainstreaming in Anguilla to help put environmental considerations at the heart of decision making.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 15/10/2014 16:07:28 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park