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1655795

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date	01/09/2023
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	Biodiversity
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 her Department's timeline is for laying the Statutory Instrument to commence the implementation of biodiversity net gain under Part 6 of the Environment Act 2021 in relation to both the main and small sites metric.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	195613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government intends to implement mandatory biodiversity net gain for most new major development under the Town and Country Planning Act (1990) from November this year, for minor development from April 2024 and for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) from 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The temporary transition for small sites until April 2024 is intended to lessen the short-term administrative burdens and to allow local planning authorities and smaller developers a longer period to prepare for biodiversity net gain.</p><p> </p><p>The relative regulatory burden of BNG for small developers can be higher, so this transition is important to ensure time for small developers to familiarise themselves with the new requirement, associated guidance, and the small sites metric. We are developing tools that will help small, medium, and large developers alike. We are also providing training and guidance that will support developers in the necessary assessments and processes.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are aware a number of digital tools are being developed in the private sector to support small and medium sized developers.</p><p> </p><p>Given that this is a temporary transition until April 2024, and that small development only makes up a small proportion of overall land use change from non-developed to urban land cover[1], we expect this transition period will a limited impact on biodiversity.</p><p> </p><p>We also know that some developers are already voluntarily delivering biodiversity net gain ahead of it becoming mandatory. The transition period for small sites does not prohibit developers from delivering voluntary BNG ahead of April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Defra intends to lay the small sites metric alongside the statutory metric ahead of implementation in November.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/839610/net-gain-ia.pdf" target="_blank">Net gain impact assessment (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> Section 2.2.2</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 195614 195615 195616 195617 question first answered 06/09/2023 16:46:06 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1015048

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Heating: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2018 to Question 166496 on Energy: Hydrogen, when the Government plans to publish further information on the work it is undertaking to strengthen and assess the evidence on the range of potential approaches to decarbonising heat.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	195613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department continues to publish findings from externally commissioned studies in support of work to strengthen the evidence of potential approaches to decarbonising heat. We plan to publish a report on our review of the evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/12/2018 10:41:46 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley