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<p>The Environment Act’s statutory cycle of monitoring, planning and reporting ensures
that government will take early, regular steps to achieve targets and can be held
to account with regular scrutiny from the Office for Environmental Protection and
Parliament. A key part of this cycle is the Annual Progress Report (APR) which describes
what has been done to implement the Environmental Improvement Plan and considers whether
the natural environment, or aspects of it, have improved over the reporting period.
The latest APR was published on 20th July 2022.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to other
sources, the APR utilises data from the Outcome Indicator Framework for the 25 Year
Environment Plan which is a suite of outcome indicators that measure changes to the
environment. The 2023 annual update to the Outcome Indicator Framework was published
on 22 May 2023 and provides the latest available data on environmental trends. Defra
intends to publish data for all indicators by 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The Environmental
Improvement Plan 2023 is the first revision of the 25 Year Environment Plan. The full
Outcome Indicator Framework will be reviewed in 2024 to evaluate its ongoing suitability
and consideration of best available evidence. This review will also consider the framework’s
alignment with the planned monitoring of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.</p>
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