Biodiversity and Sustainable Farming Incentive: Cost Effectiveness
Commons · Question 97405 · Tabled 4 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 16 Dec 2025
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Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will commission a National Audit Office evaluation of the implementation, effectiveness and value-for-money of (a) statutory Biodiversity Net Gain and (b) the re-designed Sustai
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Answered by Mary Creagh, 16 Dec 2025
The National Audit Office (NAO) undertook a review of statutory biodiversity net gain (BNG) in May 2024 and the Government is implementing many of the recommendations. The Government also recently consulted on options for improving BNG for small, medium a...