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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she will take to implement her Environmental Implementation Plan on improving YHA facilities.

The Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 (EIP23) set’s out government’s delivery plan for improving the environment within a generation.

EIP23 references the Green Recovery Challenge Fund’s Generation Green programme. This programme was led by YHA England and Wales, working with a consortium of fifteen outdoor education providers. Generation Green successfully provided more than 100,000 opportunities to connect young people to nature; and facilitated 659 skilled volunteer roles in the outdoor sector.

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund funding of almost £80m has now been awarded.