Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to restore nature and improve environmental quality as part of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.

The Government is committed to leaving the environment in a better state than we found it and halting and reversing nature’s decline. Five years ago, the 25 Year Environment Plan set out our vision for a quarter-of-a-century of action to help the natural world regain and retain good health.  Since then, we have laid the foundations for the future. We passed the Environment Act which sets ambitious legally-binding, long-term targets to restore nature. Now, we are building on the vision with our Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, which details a delivery plan for each of our ten goals, matched with stretching interim targets to measure progress. This includes our apex goal of improving nature and apex target of halting species decline by 2030.

Taking action across our environmental goals will help us restore nature, tackle environmental pollution, and increase the prosperity of our country.